Wednesday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Day; Peter Arno’s 121st

Fave Photo Of The Day…

Here’s a photo I took of Liza Donnelly on blustery chilly East 63rd Street about to bring a fairly large Barbara Shermund New Yorker original drawing into The Society of Illustrators. It will join other work in the “Drawn From The New Yorker” exhibit opening this month. Ms. Donnelly has curated a truly fab show celebrating the 100th birthday of The New Yorker.  

Here’s how the drawing looked as published in The New Yorker, May 19, 1928:

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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. For more Shermund information see Liza Donnelly’s book, Funny Ladies — a history of The New Yorker’s women cartoonists, and, Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins by Caitlin McGurk. 

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 Peter Arno’s 121st Birthday

Mike Lynch has a nice piece on Arno, on what would have been his 121st birthday.

Here’s one of my favorite Arno collection covers, Peter Arno’s Favorites. It’s one of the rare times he did a self portrait. I like how he’s assembled his then cast of characters — a sort of tidying up before moving on to his later period. The fluid lines you see used here would soon give way to the steel construction style we usually associate with Arno.

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Arno’s A-Z Entry:

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).