As promised, here are three more of the eighteen short biographies from the Westport Historical Society exhibit, Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport. My thanks again to the WHS for allowing these to be posted here on Ink Spill. (Photo of Donald Reilly courtesy of Liza Donnelly). For another look at the exhibit, link here to Attempted Bloggery, where
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New 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
Read moreExhibit: “Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport”
From The Westport Historical Society webpage: Between 1925 and 1989, 16 New Yorker artists living in and around Westport-Weston produced a remarkable 761 covers for The New Yorker Magazine. The Westport Historical Society’s next two exhibits share the covers
Read moreCartoon Life 50 Years Ago: New Yorker Cartoonists’ Paperback Collections
Before my recent interview with Dana Fradon, I did some research — as much as the internet allowed, which wasn’t a heck of a lot — and ran into this first collection of his from 1961. My copy arrived today — the pages yellowed and stiff, but the early ’60s humor intact (over on Mike Lynch’s site you’ll find a
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