Showing posts with label Peter Arno's For Members Only. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Arno's For Members Only. Show all posts

Sunday, February 8, 2026

Peter Arno: The Fireman's Pledge

An early cartoon original by Peter Arno was sold by Clarke Auction Gallery of Larchmont in 2020.

"Now remember your promise!"
Peter Arno
Original art
For Members Only (1935)

Arno imbues the rescue scene with all the bawdy innuendo he can muster. That fireman is surely brave, but he is no match for the mature, stout, playful woman descending the ladder in her flimsy nightgown.
"Now remember your promise!"
Peter Arno
Framed o
riginal art
For Members Only (1935)


Alas, there is some surface loss to the original.

Conveniently, a caption has been written on the back: "Now remember you promised!"
The back of the frame

The handwritten caption differs slightly from what is printed in For Members Only.
The caption

Peter Arno
Clarke Auction Gallery listing of April 26, 2020

Peter Arno
Clarke Auction Gallery item description


https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/clarke/fine-art-jewelry-antiques-asian-midcentury-auction-5040?page=2#catalog

Febrary 11, 2026 Update:  The cartoon was published in the 1935 collection Peter Arno's For Members Only with the caption "Now remember your promise!" I therefore have corrected the caption slightly from "Now remember, you promised!"







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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Earth Day: Peter Arno's Fresh Produce

For Earth Day, here's something fresh from cartoonist Peter Arno that's all-natural and 100% organic:

"Young man! You put that celery in a bag, where it belongs!"
Peter Arno

Original art

Skinner, March 7, 2008



May 29, 2016 Update:  Another version of this artwork appears in Peter Arno's For Members Only (1935).

Note:  The blog archives have many posts about Earth Day that are less of a stretch than this one.

Posts about Passover may also be found here.

This blog may not have more examples of original cartoon art than every other blog, but it has more examples than most. Check them out.

By now you know that Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist by Michael Maslin is available wherever you buy books. My copy is in a bag, where it belongs.


More Arno links. Stop me if you've seen these already.

Peter Arno posts on Ink Spill.

Peter Arno in Chris Wheeler's Cartoon(ist) Gallery.

Peter Arno in April's Vanity Fair.

Peter Arno in a recent Wall Street Journal article.

Peter Arno posts here on Attempted Bloggery.

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Monday, June 16, 2014

Tally-Ho from Peter Arno

A bit of inspired naughtiness from Peter Arno:

Peter Arno, "Tally-Ho[, goddammit!]"

http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2275/lots/489

A variant was published in For Members Only (1935) but the version sold at Skinner seems a bit more finished.
Peter Arno, "Tallyho, godammit!"[sic]

Peter Arno, For Members Only, 1935

Alas, Arno published a far tamer gag in the New Yorker:
Peter Arno, "Tallyho, for God's sake!"
The New Yorker,
November 4, 1933, page 14

Note:  Be sure to check out my other classy blog posts about the great Peter Arno. Tally-Ho!

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