Peter Arno published a mistletoe gag? Gee, I didn't see that one coming.
This original artwork by Arno set at a a servicemen's canteen was published in The New Yorker's Christmas issue in 1942. Some fifty years later it was given by the magazine's editor Tina Brown to Richard Avedon, whom Brown brought into the magazine as its first staff photographer. It may be hard to remember now, but there was a time when The New Yorker never ran photographs.
Brown walked away from the magazine in 1998. I just wonder how things are going for her now over at Newsweek.
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| Peter Arno, "Be careful. The place is simply lousy with mistletoe." Original artwork The New Yorker, December 26, 1942, page 14 |
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| Peter Arno, "Be careful. The place is simply lousy with mistletoe." The New Yorker, December 26, 1942, page 14 |
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