From The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, “The Art of Arthur Getz: City and Country” — an exhibit of work by the most prolific of all New Yorker cover artists. Opens May 5th. — My thanks to Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery for bringing this exhibit to my attention. Be sure to check out his site today for an interesting piece
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The Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of May 7, 2018
A Sempe cover! And a bonus: a lengthier Cover Story than of late, with several photos (including one of Sempe and Ed Koren astride bicycles in NYC). Nice. Very nice. On a run through this new issue the number of illustrations and photos seemed even weightier than the past few issues (and that’s really saying something). It’s likely due to
Read more“The Brightest Thought of Many Bright Minds”: The 1940 New Yorker Album
From the inside flap copy of this album: “The brightest thought of many bright minds”…well, heck, I’m not going to argue with that. Published by Random House in 1939, and using Peter Arno’s New Yorker cover from January 1938, this is the last of the Albums produced before the Unites States entered WWII. The cover depicts a Cafe Society moment,
Read more50 Years Ago This Week: Peter Arno’s Last New Yorker Cartoon
Every so often the Spill likes to take a look at the last cartoon published by one of the magazine’s artists. This week it’s a drawing by Peter Arno — the cartoonist the New Yorker‘s Roger Angell called “the magazine’s first genius.” I won’t go on and on here about why Arno is one of the magazine’s greatest — some
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