From the Department of Self-Promotion: this piece by Brenda Cronin in The Wall Street Journal, “A Homage to New Yorker Cartoonist Peter Arno”
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Arno Olio #3: Where To Dine In ’39
A favorite example of one of Peter Arno‘s extracurricular activities (book jacket illustration). A few more to come in the following weeks. Although the cover says it all, here’s a bit
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From the Department of Self-promotion: Beginning today and on each Sunday leading up to the April 19th publication of Peter Arno’s biography, I’ll post something Arno-related I picked up during these past fifteen years of research and writing. First up, as you can see, is this wonderful cover for the 1939 Yale Junior Prom. Arno attended Yale for just one
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From The Dept. of Self Promotion Please forgive this moment of tooting my own galley. It’s an odd and interesting thing finally seeing Arno’s biography closing in on publication. Just another month or so until it’s finished, and then off it goes out into the world (Pub date: April 19th)
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