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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Al Hirschfeld: A Preliminary Sketch of Tony Azito from Joseph Papp's "The Pirates of Penzance"

Tony Azito (1948-1995) became famous seemingly overnight playing the Police Sergeant in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival pr...

Sunday, March 12, 2023

Sergio Aragonés: An Adolph S. Ochs First Day Cover

Adolph S. Ochs was the publisher of The New York Times from 1896 to 1935, a career which earned him a U.S. commemorative stamp issue in 19...

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Roger Angell's Copy of Amateurs by Donald Barthelme

I never got to meet Donald Barthelme; I know him only through his extraordinary short stories, many of them published in The New Yorker, a...

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Fleur's Copy of My Crowd by Charles Addams

To recap: Charles Addams presented his friend Fleur with a copy of Drawn and Quartered, the reissue, in 1970. He included a drawing of the...

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Peter Arno for Penn Maryland Whiskey

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a popular 1925 novel by Anita Loos that inspired a 1928 silent film of the same name (and a Technicolor music...

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