A Barbara Shermund Exhibit (In Ohio)
News of an exhibit of work by the late great Barbara Shermund taking place in Ohio, beginning this coming Saturday. All the information here.
—Above: Ms. Shermund’s very first New Yorker drawing, published in the issue of January 16, 1926.
Barbara Shermund’s A-Z Entry:
Barbara Shermund (self portrait shown) Born, San Francisco. 1899. Studied at The California School of Fine Arts. Died, 1978, New Jersey. New Yorker work: June 13, 1925 thru September 16, 1944. 8 covers and 599 cartoons. Shermund’s post-New Yorker work was featured in Esquire. (See Liza Donnelly’s book, Funny Ladies — a history of The New Yorker’s women cartoonists — for more on Shermund’s life and work)
More Reading:
From The New Yorker, February 17, 2019: “The Lovely Nineteen-Twenties Flapper Era Cartoons of Barbara Shermund.”
From the Spill, March 8, 2022,“At Last! Barbara Shermund’s Obit in The Paper of Record”
Note: there’s a Shermund book on the way from Fantagraphics, as mentioned here; unable to comment on it as I haven’t seen an advance copy.