Arno Changes His Mind
Stephen Nadler’s latest Attempted Bloggery post, “Peter Arno’s Changing Point Of View” takes an interesting look at graphic decision-making by one of The New Yorker‘s grand masters.
I love seeing alternate drawings of published work by cartoonists — sometimes the unpublished version appears “better” than the finish. Here’s a battered but beautiful Arno drawing from Mr. Nadler’s post.
Peter Arno’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
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).