As part of the New Yorker’s 90th anniversary celebration, its website has been posting decade-by-decade slide shows of cartoons. They’re now up to 1965 through 1975. The above, by Mischa Richter, appeared in the magazine May 23, 1970.
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Auction of Interest: Swann Offers Numerous New Yorker Cartoons; Covers Calendar Noted; Video: Mankoff on Science of Humor
Swann’s upcoming auction on January 22nd is chock full of New Yorker cartoons, with work by a number of the magazine’s giants. Cartoons on the block by Steinberg, Mischa Richter, Barbara Shermund, William Steig, Richard Taylor, Edward Sorel, Victoria Roberts, Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson, Rea Irvin, and Peter Arno. Below: a beautiful early Steig included in the auction. Link here
Read moreWestport Historical Society Exhibit Bios, Pt 4: Charles Addams, Mischa Richter, Charles Saxon
We continue with the wonderful short bios from The Westport Historical Society where the exhibit, Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport is currently running. My thanks to the Society for allowing these to appear on Ink Spill.
Read moreNew Yorker’s Golden Age of Art Celebrated in Westport, Connecticut
(Above: Charles Addams at the wheel, with James Geraghty, The New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 through 1973. South Hampton, 1947) For those wanting to bathe in the glow of New Yorker covers and art history from the magazine’s Golden Age, there’s no better place this winter than the Westport Historical Society
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