Illustrator Ronald McRae was active in the 1920s and '30s. His sole cover for The New Yorker was published in the spring of 1926. McRae's style embraces the art deco movement that was so popular at the time. His cover art depicts a fashionably-dressed woman, seen from behind, standing on the deck of an ocean liner. Her elongated figure holds a bouquet of roses and waves a handkerchief at her male admirers on shore below. Bon voyage!
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| Ronald McRae Original art The New Yorker, May 15, 1926 |
The published cover gives an idea of what the original unfaded colors may have looked like. The folded papers that the men are grasping in the original art have been edited out of the published version.
 The New Yorker, May 15, 1926 |
The original art is currently on display at the Society of Illustrators in New York. It is a part of the exhibition "Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration" curated by New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly.
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