Ads From Gluyas Williams & William Steig
Warren Bernard is back at it, happily scanning ads for us to enjoy. Here’re just a few from his latest batch sent to the Spill. My thanks as always to him for foraging, selecting, scanning, and sending!
Gluyas Williams* The Saturday Evening Post, November 8, 1941, and below, Collier’s, March 14, 1942
Peter Arno** Look, May 30, 1944
Helen Hokinson*** Look May 30, 1944
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From the Spill’s A-Z:
Gluyas Williams (above left undated; right:1975) Born, San Francisco, 1888. Died, Boston, Mass., 1982. One of the pillars of Harold Ross’s stable of artists, and one of Ross’s favorite cartoonists. His beautiful full page drawings were a regular feature in the magazine. Mr. Williams illustrated a number of Robert Benchley’s collections, providing the cover art as well as illustrations. NYer work: March 13, 1926 – Aug 25, 1951. Key collections: The Gluyas Williams Book ( Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929), The Gluyas Williams Gallery (Harper, 1956). Website: http://www.gluyaswilliams.com/
Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New York City. Died February 22, 1968, Port Chester, NY. New Yorker work: 1925 -1968. Key collection: Ladies & Gentlemen (Simon & Schuster, 1951) The Foreword is by Arno. For far more on Arno please check out my biography of him, Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist (Regan Arts, 2016).
Helen Hokinson Born, Illinois,1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here are two favorites. Her first collection: So You’re Going To Buy A Book! (Minton, Balch & Co, 1931) and what was billed as “the final Hokinson collection”: The Hokinson Festival (Dutton & Co., 1956). According to a New Yorker document produced during Harold Ross’s editorship (1925-1951) rating their artists, Ms. Hokinson and Peter Arno occupied a special category unto themselves above all others.
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Daily Cartoonists (Monday & Tuesday)
Monday: From Lars Kenseth, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016.
Tuesday: From Zoe Si, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2020.