The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 was the first New Yorker collection I ever purchased. The hardcover volume sold for about $15 and I had to make a very deliberate decision to commit that amount of money to a mammoth book of cartoons. As it turns out, it had a profound an long-lasting effect on me. Can you tell?
A copy is currently available on eBay with the original signatures of five New Yorker cartoonists. I got to know the work of these cartoonists primarily through the magazine and collections such as this one. Indeed, I started collecting older out-of-print New Yorker albums fairly passionately and by this means I became familiar with the work of the pantheon of cartoonists who contributed to the magazine over the years.
The eBay seller has included a generous selection of images from the book and the cartoons are, of course, brilliant. Interestingly, though, the seller hasn't included any cartoons by the five signing cartoonists, which I would have thought good salesmanship. Still, there is an awful lot of Peter Arno instead and who can argue with that?
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For the record, this is what Joseph Farris's signature looks like:
Note: Yesterday, I was thrilled to see that my recent post about Rea Irvin in the Virgin Islands was mentioned on Ink Spillhere.If you're interested in the very latest about New Yorker cartoonists--and why on earth would you be reading this post if you weren't?--then you should be following Ink Spill.
As if that weren't enough, today I'm quoted on Perpetua, the Ronald Searle tribute blog! The topic is Ronald Searle and the Berlin Wall. The post would be outstanding even if I weren't mentioned. See it here.
I have a daily newspaper panel drawing by William Hamilton on the blog here.
An Edward Frascino sandbox drawing is part of a larger post about New Yorker cartoons at auction. I still don't know whether Mr. Frascino's drawing was ever published. You can see it all here.
Then if you still have the energy, some of the other signed books featured on this blog can be found here. Happy reading!
A copy is currently available on eBay with the original signatures of five New Yorker cartoonists. I got to know the work of these cartoonists primarily through the magazine and collections such as this one. Indeed, I started collecting older out-of-print New Yorker albums fairly passionately and by this means I became familiar with the work of the pantheon of cartoonists who contributed to the magazine over the years.
The eBay seller has included a generous selection of images from the book and the cartoons are, of course, brilliant. Interestingly, though, the seller hasn't included any cartoons by the five signing cartoonists, which I would have thought good salesmanship. Still, there is an awful lot of Peter Arno instead and who can argue with that?
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| The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 signed by Herbert Goldberg, Edward Frascino, William Hamilton, Warren Miller, and Everett Opie. In the eBay listing, the seller has mistaken Edward Frascino's signature for Joseph Farris's. |
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| Peter Arno |
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| Ralph Barton, Alice Harvey, Helen E. Hokinson, Garrett Price |
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| John Held, Jr., Rea Irvin, Alfred Frueh |
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| Rea Irvin, Constantin Alajalov, Barbara Shermund, Peter Arno |
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| Ralph Barton, James Thurber, William Steig, John Held, Jr. |
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| Perry Barlow, George Price, Peter Arno |
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| Mary Petty, Garrett Price, Richard Decker |
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| Peter Arno, Garrett Price, Chon Day, Helen E. Hokinson |
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| Robert Kraus, Richard Taylor, Peter Arno |
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| Leslie Starke, Richard Taylor, Peter Arno |
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| Garrett Price, Joseph Mirachi, Gardner Rea |
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| Peter Arno, Garner Rea, Charles E. Martin |
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| Richard Taylor, Saul Steinberg, Barney Tobey, George Price |
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| Peter Arno, Frank Modell, Robert Day |
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| Charles Saxon |
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| Alan Dunn, Carl Rose, Peter Arno |
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| Mischa Richter, James Stevenson, Lee Lorenz, Richard McCallister, Ed Fisher |
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| Donald Reilly, Leslie Starke, John Corcoran |
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| Donald Reilly, J. B. Handelsman, Niculae Asciu, Mischa Richter |
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| The artists represented in The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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| The image-hosting service Auctiva allows up to twenty-four photos per eBay auction listing, and this seller is determined to use them all. This is number 23. Instead of this close-up of the back cover, I think it would have been more helpful to photograph pages that include some of the cartoonists who signed this book. |
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| Again, this is really an unnecessary photograph. |
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| http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-New-Yorker-Album-Of-Drawings-SIGNED-MILLER-GOLDBERG-HAMILTON-OPIE-FARRIS-/390614415738?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item5af26ef97a |
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| As stated above, the eBay seller has mistaken Edward Frascino's signature for Joseph Farris's. Tsk tsk. |
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| Say, did I mention that the eBay seller has mistaken Edward Frascino's signature for Joseph Farris's? |
For the record, this is what Joseph Farris's signature looks like:
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| http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Looks-good-For-lunch-all-12-want-pastrami-on-rye-and-coffee-Cartoon-Prints_i8638301_.htm?AID=644589833 |
Note: Yesterday, I was thrilled to see that my recent post about Rea Irvin in the Virgin Islands was mentioned on Ink Spillhere.If you're interested in the very latest about New Yorker cartoonists--and why on earth would you be reading this post if you weren't?--then you should be following Ink Spill.
As if that weren't enough, today I'm quoted on Perpetua, the Ronald Searle tribute blog! The topic is Ronald Searle and the Berlin Wall. The post would be outstanding even if I weren't mentioned. See it here.
I have a daily newspaper panel drawing by William Hamilton on the blog here.
An Edward Frascino sandbox drawing is part of a larger post about New Yorker cartoons at auction. I still don't know whether Mr. Frascino's drawing was ever published. You can see it all here.
Then if you still have the energy, some of the other signed books featured on this blog can be found here. Happy reading!
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