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In 1888, cartoonist Thomas Nast had a lot to say against tariffs. Theys were imposed to generate revenues and ostensibly to protect domesti...

Ronald Searle's 1950's-era British advertising campaign for Lemon Hart Rum was extremely successful. His illustrations featured Mr....

Arthur Rackham's original illustration Closeted Up With the Fortune-Teller is available from Heritage Book Shop in Beverly Hills. It w...

Saul Steinberg's Pont Royal Table is a 1981 mixed media work on wood. It is currently listed by Los Angeles Modern Auctions with a fix...

The medium is rubber stamp and pencil on paper. That alone might be enough to clue you in that the artist is Saul Steinberg. Executed in 1...

A drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh holding the honey jar was made on camera by E. H. Shepard in the late 1960s for a documentary by Hans Keller....

Before the introduction of the personal weighing scale in the 1940s, there really wasn't much opportunity to weigh oneself, although pu...

Editor Tina Brown brought photographer Richard Avedon into the pages of the New Yorker with great fanfare in 1992 as the magazine's ...

I must have been aware of it when the estate of Ambassador Pamela Harriman was sold off at Sotheby's in 1997—I still have the catalogue...

As a New York City apartment dweller for about half my lifetime, I can think of few subjects less conducive to humor than cockroaches, thos...