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Blog Post No. 4400: Admiring Nature—Saul Steinberg Preliminary New Yorker...
Art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914-1996) is known for creating memorable logos for prominent corporations. As a friend of New Yorker artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), he was the...
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Looking at Gallery Art: Two Saul Steinberg Magazine Covers
One artist: Saul Steinberg. One subject: spectators looking thoughtfully at art in a gallery. Two years of publication: 1961 and 1969. Two magazines: Art in America and The New Yorker. One question:...
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Best Copy: The Big New Yorker Book of Cats
It's not a stretch to call the copy of The Big New Yorker Book of Cats currently listed on Biblio the best one available. Issued by Random House in 2013 with a foreword by Anthony Lane, the book...
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Best Copy: The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs was published in 2012, a year before the similarly-named feline collection also from Random House. The Brattle Book Shop in Massachusetts has a copy of both "big" books,...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #860
Life's a beach in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #860 from the issue of August 7, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Ed Himelblau."At least we scavenge with moderation."These...
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Arthur Getz: Musicians
It's unusual to see the most published New Yorker cover artist of all time, Arthur Getz (1913-1996), working in the medium of ceramic relief. His three-panel work Musicians is unsigned and undated, so...
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Best Copy: Ralph Steadman's Animal Farm by George Orwell
Ralph Steadman, who can illustrate damn near anything, created a pictorial edition of George Orwell'sAnimal Farm in 1995 to celebrate the book's fiftieth anniversary. In June, Peter Harrington of...
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Ralph Steadman: Red Shark, the Limited Edition
There are only 100 copies of the limited edition of Red Shark (2003) and they're each signed by Ralph Steadman, Anna Steadman, Joe Petro III, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It's twenty years now since...
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Thomas Eastwood: Receipt Spike
A receipt spike is the sort of everyday store item we've seen countless times without giving it a second thought. We may not even have known what one is called. Thomas Eastwood's spot illustration of...
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Thomas Eastwood: Baggage Cart
Thomas Eastwood's spot drawing of a handcart holding luggage was published in The New Yorker, probably some time from 1930 to 1945. The verso bears production markings typical of the magazine. The...
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Thomas Eastwood: Finding the Right One
A woman tries on a hairband in a vintage spot drawing by Thomas Eastwood. She is shown holding a mirror up to her hair while standing behind a display of small hats. The artwork is believed to have...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #861
The Earps and Doc Holliday couldn't make it to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #861 from the issue of August 14, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Tom Toro."So Tombstone is...
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Peter Arno: America's Best-Dressed Guy
On Sunday, January 26, 1941, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram published a story by Lucius Beebe of the New York Tribune. He writes about New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno, who was then 37 years of age. The...
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Katharine Cornell's Copy of Nightcrawlers by Charles Addams
Leave it to cartoonist Charles Addams (1912-1988) to get invited to the estate of celebrated stage actress Katharine Cornell (1893-1974). Her home, built in 1951, was in Sneden's Landing in the...
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Arthur Rackham: The Letter
Peter Harrington of London offers a beautiful illustration created by Arthur Rackham for the American market between 1922 and 1925. The image, titled The Letter, is one of thirty he created to...
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Lászlo Roth: Five Spot Drawings
Lászlo Roth was one of many accomplished illustrators who provided spot drawings to The New Yorker. Five originals that were presumably published in the magazine have been framed under glass as a...
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Mischa Richter: Cocktail Party Chit-Chat
Cocktail parties still take place, but they have become less formal affairs since the 1989 publication of Mischa Richter'sNew Yorker cartoon with this setting. The original art was sold on eBay six...
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Mischa Richter: Power Nap
The OED dates the term power nap to 1980. The Google Books Ngram Viewer concurs, documenting more widespread use in the 1990s and the 2000s. Mischa Richter's cartoon from The New Yorker issue of August...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #862
The 3D glasses come on for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #862 from the issue of August 21, 2023, but they seem oddly different. My timely caption is shown below. The drawing is by Lynn Hsu."I...
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 170
Here we go again with the CartoonStock Caption Contest #170. Cartoonist Pat Byrnes, the original Captain Dad, gives us a gathering of zebras on the African plain, one with a different pattern. By now,...
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