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Showing posts with label Barbara Nicholls. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Barbara Nicholls. Show all posts

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Peter Arno: The Fireman's Farewell

In a 1939 New Yorker cartoon, Peter Arno's firefighter bids farewell to a befuddled homeowner: "Well, if you ever need us again j...

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Peter Arno: Not the Crosstown Bus

What cartoonist, one may ask, seems more at home drawing the inside of a police van than Peter Arno? A work of original art from a 1937 iss...

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Blog Post No. 5000: Peter Arno's Side-Show for February 1937

In July of 1985, seventeen works of original cartoon art by Peter Arno published in the magazine College Humor were brought to the Nichol...

Friday, June 16, 2023

Saul Steinberg: Three Landscape Views

An untitled 1970 work by Saul Steinberg was given by the artist in December of 1971 to Barbara Nicholls, then assistant to The New Yorker...

Thursday, November 1, 2018

In Pursuit of Charles Addams

After American Frank Shorter won the men's marathon in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, jogging became suddenly popular in America. ...

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