The new wall calendars for 2016 have arrived. They are probably on sale just about everywhere by now but I came across them over the weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The New Yorker's 2016 entry calls itself
The New Yorker Covers Poster Calendar 2016 which is nearly as awkward to read to yourself as it is to say out loud. The calendar's cover reproduces the 2012 Innovators Issue magazine cover "The Cloud" by
Bob Staake. On the calendar's back cover, we get to see the magazine describe itself as "Iconic design. Iconic
New Yorker." Apparently they left out the part about
humble. Calendar covers are by
Mark Ulriksen, Charles E. Martin, Maira Kalman, Jacques de Loustal, Birgit Schössow, Adolph K. Kronengold, Garrett Price, Christoph Niemann, Eric Drooker, Arthur Getz, Jorge Colombo, and once again
Bob Staake. Helpful advice is offered for those who wish to "First hang it as a calendar--then frame it as art!" Let's face it: you could do worse.
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| The New Yorker Covers Poster Calendar 2016 |
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| The New Yorker Covers Poster Calendar 2016 |
Now the
Edward Gorey 2016 Calendar describes the artist as "famous for masterful pen-and-ink cross-hatched drawings and ironic, offbeat humor." While I might quibble a bit with the use of "cross-hatched" to describe the great variety of detailed pen-and-ink work for which
Edward Gorey is acclaimed, I nevertheless find this calendar's blurb to be pretty accurate and without pretense. The cover illustration is a wonderful set-piece called "An Exhibition." I certainly would have no quibbles about gazing at an image of this quality every month.
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| Edward Gorey 2016 Calendar |
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| Edward Gorey 2016 Calendar |
Note: You're in luck! This blog has a few posts on many of these artists:
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