On Sunday I visited the New York Public Library to catch the exhibition "A Century of The New Yorker." The show's banner is behind the library lion known as Patience.
Introduction with some of the magazine's library covers:
Preliminary art from 1934 is by Reginald Marsh for "It's her first lynching."
A spot drawing of a bus stop sign by K. Sterne:
A 1939 photograph of Dorothy Parker:
A lovely 1947 spot drawing by Susan Flint:
A 1946 pony edition of The New Yorker sent to servicemen overseas has a cover by James Thurber featuring several varieties of his dogs.
A 1940 photograph of "Letter from Paris" correspondent Janet Flanner, or Genêt, is by Carl Van Vechten.
A Fact Checking Department banner by Anne Mortimer-Maddox, c. 1970:
A 1948 photograph of New Yorker staff members and a fact checking memo from Frederick Packard to Ross:
An after-hours spot drawing by Garth Williams:
"This is going on all over!" The magazine increases its circulation outside of New York City.
A synchronous spot drawintg by Virginia Snedeker:
Original cartoon art by Helen E. Hokinson:
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| "I want to report a winking man." |
And original art by Charles Addams, c. 1945. You may recognize the witch as Morticia, but this is well before Addams Family members had been given names.
A full issue in 1946 was dedicated to John Hersey's "Hiroshima."
Copycat!
Cover by Charles Alston:
A dynamic 1948 spot drawing by Esther Pressoir:
A 1975 spot drawing by Tom Funk:
A weighty 1982 spot drawing by Margit Steig:
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| "Oh, I couldn't make it Friday—I've so many things to do. It's the thirteenth, you know." |
A full issue in 1946 was dedicated to John Hersey's "Hiroshima."
Onward!
Lillian Ross and William Shawn in an undated photograph:
Office typewriters of Lillian Ross and William Shawn:
Hannah Arendt's draft of "Eichmann in Jerusalem:"
A 1973 spot drawing by David Preston:
Don't forget to look up.
