In One Issue
Paging through a long ago issue of The New Yorker — the issue of January 21, 1956 to be exact — I was struck by the number of ads using the work of New Yorker cartoonists.
There’s Peter Arno for The Pajama Game (the drawing appeared on the cover of Playbill and on the soundtrack album), and Joe Farris for American Airlines (I’d not seen this ad til yesterday).
The work of Anatol Kovarsky in an ad for Angostura Bitters, and Barney Tobey providing the art for the play, No Time For Sergeants, another play, Matchmaker.
The A-Zs for the artists mentioned in this post:
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).
Joseph Farris ( photo by Liza Donnelly, NYC, 1997) Born May 30, 1924, Newark, NJ. Died January 28, 2015, Bethel, Connecticut. New Yorker work: 1956 – 2010. Collections include: Just A Cog In The Wheel ( Bob Adams, Inc., 1989). Special mention: Mr. Farris’s memoir, A Soldier’s Sketchbook (National Geographic, 2012)
Anatol Kovarsky (photo above, NYC, 2013. By Liza Donnelly) Born, Moscow. Died, June 1, 2016, NYC. Collection: Kovarsky’s World (Knopf, 1956) NYer work: 1947 -1969. Link to Ink Spill’s 2013 piece, “Anatol Kovarsky at 94: Still Drawing After All These Years”
Barney Tobey (photo from Think Small, a book of humor produced by Volkswagon) Born in New York City, July, 18, 1906, died March 27, 1989, New York. NYer work: 1929 -1986. Essential collection: B. Tobey of The New Yorker (Dodd Mead & Co., 1983)