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Saul Steinberg: An Untitled Paper Bag Mask
A colorful paper bag mask by Saul Steinberg was offered for sale Wednesday at Los Angeles Modern Auctions. The face on the mask is rendered very geometrically, largely with zigzags and meanders, giving...
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Saul Steinberg: Pont Royal Table
Saul Steinberg'sPont Royal Table is a 1981 mixed media work on wood. It is currently listed by Los Angeles Modern Auctions with a fixed sale price of $35,000.Saul SteinbergLAMA listing accessed June 8,...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #855
For once I tried to take the high road in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #855 from the issue of June 26, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Liza Donnelly."From now on you talk...
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 168
For the CartoonStock Caption Contest #168, Joe Dator takes the story of the Trojan Horse and substitutes a giant pantomime horse with two clueless perpetrators. How on earth does one write a caption...
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Ronald Searle: Leasing with Lloyd's
On June 21 at Lyon & Turnbull's auction house in Edinburgh, the American Peter Arno's cartoon art was scooped up for 900 GBP, more than its high estimate, while Englishman Ronald Searle's charming...
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Sight Unseen: Martha Russ's Copy of Childproof by Roz Chast
Signed cartoon books are better than unsigned ones, but a book by a cartoonist is most interesting when the author has drawn something in it, just as a book by a novelist is most interesting when the...
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Peter Arno: Romancing the Natives
On June 15, Swann Galleries sold two preliminary drawings by The New Yorker'sPeter Arno. Neither is signed, but both are unmistakably the master's work. Swann's listing states, "He probably submitted...
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Rube Goldberg's Pipe
If you hang around New York enough, you'll find traces of the great cartoonists of yesteryear all over. Last night, after dinner on West 36th Street at Keens Steakhouse—the apostrophe has been...
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New York 2023: The Brooklyn Bridge
One week ago today, New York was warm and cloudy, but it wasn't filled with a smoky haze from Canadian wildfires. It was a good day to cross the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn into Manhattan. Please...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #856
Pop goes the weasel in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #856 from the issue of July 3, 2023. My caption is shown below. The corny drawing is by Lonnie Millsap."All right. Climate change may have...
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Dime Register Bank
Ten years ago I was intrigued by a vintage Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs dime register bank licensed by Walt Disney Enterprises in 1938, the year after the release of the movie, and I archived the...
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Ronald Searle: Maestro
Jeffrey Archer's short story collection, his fifth, Cat O' Nine Tales (2006) came to my attention through its illustrations by that consummate expatriate English artist Ronald Searle. Of the twelve...
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Ronald Searle: Two Lemon Hart Rum Posters
It isn't easy finding posters of the tall and spindly Mr. Lemon Hart, Ronald Searle's popular 1950s creation for a very successful advertising campaign in support of Lemon Hart Rum. It is even more...
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Ronald Searle: A 1936 Autograph Page
Ronald Searle's 1936 drawing from an autograph album that belonged to one Patricia M. Frost of Cambridge is not by a long shot "possibly the earliest work known by him," as claimed by Rainford &...
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Ronald Searle: Teen Age Belge
It was 1953, and 33-year-old British artist Ronald Searle was regularly illustrating major American authors such as Ruth McKenney in major American magazines such as Holiday. The drawing which Searle...
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Rebecca West: In Support of Corey Ford
A 1930 letter to publisher Henry Hart from British author and literary critic Rebecca West has turned up at Dennis Holzman Antiques in Cohoes, New York. West grants the publisher permission to quote...
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Al Capp: For the Gal He Loves
Al Capp's original art for the Li'l Abner comic strip of December 17, 1967 has the title character wondering aloud what a bachelor can do for the gal he loves? Mammy Yokum won't help him out, because...
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Ronald Searle: S. J. Perelman Rides Through the Desert
On Sunday, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries of Maine sold an original illustration by Ronald Searle for S. J. Perelman's"Nostasia in Asia" series in Travel & Leisure. The color piece, with its...
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George Price: You Are Silent
An original 1966Â New Yorker drawing by George Price depicts an older couple at an outdoor art show, probably the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibition in lower Manhattan. They aren't saying anything...
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George Price: Talk/Don't Talk
It was just a couple of months before the founding of the National Organization of Women when George Price's cartoon was published in the April 14, 1966 issue of The New Yorker. Price's characters are...
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