A Ralph Barton Art Supply Ad (With Peter Arno)
Back in the Roaring Twenties, Pelican Ink reminded Ralph Barton (and New Yorker readers) that its ink was available in the U.S.A.. The ad below shows a passage from a New Yorker piece on Ralph Barton, Through The Magnifying Glass (by Charles G.Shaw) from the magazine’s November 5, 1927 issue. The caricature of Barton is by the one-and-only Peter Arno.
Ralph Barton Born August 14, 1891, Kansas City, Mo.. Committed suicide on May 20th, 1931 in NYC. New Yorker work: 3rd issue of The New Yorker, March 7th 1925 — May 23, 1931. Key book: Ralph Barton: The Last Dandy (University of Missouri Press, 1991) by
Bruce Kellner.
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).
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Exhibit Of Interest: “Commentary On the Commute: A Century of The New Yorker’s Transportation Cartoons”
Beginning March 26th, The New York Transit Museum will honor The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday, with an exhibit featuring work — cartoons and covers — by 57 of the magazine’s artists “whose subjects should be familiar to anyone who has ever taken public transportation: the uniqueness of New Yorkers, the challenges of the commute, the daily sea of humanity (and critters) that move through the region, and the grittiness and the grandeur that is New York.”
This Daily Cartoonist post shows a few of the pieces included in the show.
–Art directly above by R. Sikoryak