A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, takes a good long look at the contents of the issue of September 21, 1935. See it here! Above: the cover is by the late great Ilonka Karasz Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick, New
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Attempted Bloggery’s Arno Quest It took a long long time — decades! — for Attempted Bloggery‘s Stephen Nadler to complete a Peter Arno quest that involved original Arno art, a New York City gallery, a now defunct humor magazine, and, of course, persistence. Read about it here. ____________________________________________________ Peter Arno’s A-Z Entry: Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8,
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Latest Additions to The Spill Library: Through the kindness of two friends of the Spill, two book deliveries arrived at my door this week. Here’s the first: What you see above, from the top down: The very first New Yorker Album …a heart-stopper whenever I see a dust-jacketed copy. This one has (amazingly, considering its age: 97 years) retained the
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An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Lars Kenseth, Mads Horwath, Harry Bliss, Guy Richards Smit, P.C. Vey. See the Daily cartoons here. _______________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On A Peter Arno Original Drawing Attempted Bloggery looks at and into an interesting and somewhat baffling Peter Arno Whoops
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