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Campaign Stop: Arthur Getz Preliminary New Yorker Cover Art
Arthur Getz's preliminary cover art for The New Yorker issue of October 1, 1960 depicts the height of the campaign season during a presidential election year. The candidate at the top of the boarding...
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Peter Arno: The Ethical Hunter
Peter Arno's original cartoon art for The New Yorker from 1937 depicts an unusual hunting trophy room. The art was sold on Saturday at auction. The cartoonist is having some fun with the notion of...
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Peter Arno: Night Club No-No
The young bombshell in Peter Arno'sNew Yorker cartoon original of April 22, 1939 just can't seem to enjoy a night on the town. Maybe she'll tell us why."If I could only stop thinking!"Peter...
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Peter Arno: Two Pretty Sisters
Three pieces of original art by New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno (1904-1968) were auctioned by Hess Fine Art on Saturday. All three come from the estate of actress and socialite Nina Lunn Black...
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Peter Arno: Auction Postscript
After I bid unsuccessfully last week for two original works by New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno, Invaluable wrote to me to suggest other, similar works I might like to pursue. What do you suppose they...
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Donald Duck to the Max
On Independence Day ten years ago, I posted a serigraph by Peter Max of the Statue of Liberty. The eBay seller had come to my attention after selling the original art to Ilonka Karasz's 1955 poison ivy...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #835
This week, X marks the spot in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #835 from the issue of January 23, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Eddie Ward."Sorry, we're fresh out of rum...
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Isabel's Copy of "You're Sitting On My Eyelashes" by Whitney Darrow, Jr.
In 1943, Whitney Darrow, Jr., collected his New Yorker work of the prior decade in a collection called "You're Sitting On My Eyelashes." Isabel's copy, whatever her identity, has an original full-page...
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Sight Unseen: A Child's Guide to Freud Inscribed by Whitney Darrow, Jr.
Even sight unseen, it didn't take more than a minute to decide to purchase this one. The book is a first edition of A Child's Guide to Freud (1963) by Louise Armstrong. This copy, selling for $45, is...
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My Copy of I Love(ish) New York City by Ali Solomon
I did not attend the book launch and signing with Ali Solomon on October 27, 2022 at the Corner Bookstore in Manhattan. Instead, I arranged for a copy of I Love(ish) New York City: Tales of City Life...
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Sight Unseen: Number One is Walking by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss
My purchase of a doubly-signed copy of Number One is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions was not informed by an image of the signatures of author Steve Martin and artist Harry Bliss, so...
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Sight Unseen: James Stevenson's The Life, Loves & Laughs of Frank Modell, SIgned
Online booksellers have every opportunity to show potential buyers their wares with informative photographs. No one should ever again need to consider the purchase of a book possessing some unique...
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Ronald Searle: Pardong M'sieur
Pardong M'sieur is Ronald Searle's 1965 French language cartoon collection. Most of the drawings are wordless anyway, but the single heading Paris by night was retained in the author's native tongue,...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #836
This week, someone has made first contact in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #836 from the issue of January 30, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by E. S. Glenn."Got blue...
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Keith Haring: Men and Robots
Oh, come on. Who doesn't like robots? Still, there may be something apocalyptic about Keith Haring's untitled drawing of men and robots. Both entities, so to speak, are warming themselves by a...
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Ronald Searle: Birth of a Nation
The postwar decolonization of Africa began in the mid to late 1950s and continued until 1975 or so. Ronald Searle provided a serious political illustration for Punch in 1959 called, apparently, Birth...
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A Tiffany "Wave" Paperweight
A Tiffany Studios bronze and favrile glass "Wave" pattern paperweight demonstrates an organic art nouveau form. Offered for sale at auction in early 2020 with an estimate of $2,500 to $4,000, it sold...
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Edmund Wilson's Copy of The New World by Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg dedicated a copy of his collection The New World to writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson in 1965, the year of publication. Both artist and author were masters of their craft and each...
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Charles Addams: In the Psychologist's Waiting Room
An original, unsigned, rough drawing executed in Conté crayon and pencil by Charles Addams (1912–1988) is available from Argosy Books of Manhattan. It is set in the waiting room of a psychologist's...
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The Art of the Redraw: Gahan Wilson's Book Store
A redraw by Gahan Wilson is being offered for sale by Argosy Book Store of New York. Redraws of cartoons typically come about when an original published drawing has been sold, given away, lost even—or...
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