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Peter Arno's Circus Signed Limited Edition 1931
The cartoon collection Peter Arno'sCircus was published in 1931. The signed limited edition consisted of 110 copies, down from the 145 copies issued in 1930 for the Hullabaloo limited edition. It seems...
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Peter Arno's Ladies & Gentlemen Signed and Inscribed
A copy of Peter Arno'sLadies & Gentlemen (1951) is inscribed with birthday wishes and signed, but exactly to whom is it inscribed? It might be for someone named Worth, apparently known to Arno by...
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Daise Terry's Copy of Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter?
Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter (1949)Bookseller imagePeter Arno's Sizzling Platter (1949) signed and inscribed by Peter ArnoBookseller ImageBookseller Peter Ellis in the U.K. offers a signed and...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #522
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #522 for May 16, 2016. The drawing is by Harry Bliss."Do you need a hand?"I also tinkered with the following ideas in my caption...
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Peter Arno Art for College Humor
In the summer of 1985—some fifty years after they were published—eighteen works of original cartoon art from College Humor magazine were brought to the Nicholls Gallery in New York. Five were purchased...
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Peter Arno: Meet the Oglethorpes
What's in a name? Well, good made-up names are hard to come by. When a cartoonist finds a telling name for a character in a cartoon, he may want to reuse it on occasion. Peter Arno's 1927 New Yorker...
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The Illustrators' Show
The place to be on May 13, 1932 was the Illustrators' Show at the New Yorker Theatre, now Studio 54. This was an annual benefit with racy content not unlike the Dutch Treat Shows. The program describes...
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Peter Arno's Hurried Note
As he [Peter Arno] told Joseph Mitchell: "I don't think anything could be as much fun as to get a good hold on a pompous person and shake him or her until you can hear the false teeth...
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Peter Arno: Santa's Close-Up
Peter Arno's 1965 Christmas season cartoon "Hi, Kitten. This is Oogie" is in some ways the slightest of gags, a play on our expectations about names and relationships. Preliminary artwork sold at Swann...
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Peter Arno: La Vie Parisienne
The worldly Peter Arno wants you to know your way around Paris. Note how well he handles the lighting of this after-dark street scene and how distinctly out of place the American couple at the center...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #523
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #523 for May 23, 2016. The drawing is by Joe Dator."We can't return them. I didn't keep the barrel."I also monkeyed around with these...
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Frank Modell (1917-2016)
New Yorker cartoonist Frank Modell died Friday at age 98. In a tribute published on Ink Spill yesterday, cartoonist Michael Maslin called him "a cartoonist's cartoonist." He was also a collector's...
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Peter Arno: Where There's a Will...
The reading of the will to stunned relatives is a time-honored cartoon trope. Peter Arno does not disappoint with the drawing published in the New Yorker on May 16, 1942. Being able to see his original...
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Peter Arno: Where There's a Will..., Part 2
The reading of the will was featured in an exceptional Peter Arno New Yorker cartoon from 1939. The original artwork was sold in 2013 by a small auction house. Appearances suggest the listing did not...
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Peter Arno: Where There's a Will..., Part 3
In 1942, Peter Arno confronted an interesting problem. He had either come up with or been assigned a gag cartoon for the New Yorker that involved the reading of a will to disappointed relatives. He had...
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Peter Arno: The Magician's Secret
Ten years ago, Russ Cochran auctioned off an original gag cartoon by Peter Arno. The problem for buyers was that the caption wasn't reported and the date was given erroneously as circa 1950—it was...
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Peter Arno: The Scoutmaster's Secret
A preliminary New Yorker drawing by Peter Arno seen at Skinner in 2007 is almost good enough to publish, but it does have a problem or two. The speaker, trying to correct a misunderstanding, is...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for March/April 2016
The Moment Cartoon Caption Contest allows multiple entries, so I submitted a total of four for the March/April 2016 contest. The drawing is by Benjamin Schwartz. Moment magazine is a journal of Jewish...
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Peter Arno at the Leicester Gallery
The online Encyclopædia Britannica entry on Peter Arno shows a photograph of the America cartoonist posing with his works at the Leicester Galleries exhibition in 1932. Wouldn't it be great to get a...
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Peter Arno's Lady in White
Peter Arno's lithograph Lady in White is printed in two colors, red and black. It depicts a young woman with eyes closed and head tilted forward wearing a large white hat and ruffled gown. The color...
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