William Steig: Mother and Child

Original art by William Steig celebrates that special relationship between mother and child. A woman is shown sleeping in bed with her baby. It is a published piece, with printer's marks, from an unknown publication. The splendid drawing is unsigned; perhaps it is a book illustration. It is available from Argosy Book Store in New York.

William Steig

William Steig
Argosy Book Store item description accessed May 10, 2025

https://www.argosybooks.com/pages/books/288062/william-steig/untitled-original-drawing

Note:  If you know where this drawing by William Steig was published, please let me know. After you've called your mother.

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Season's Greetings from Arthur Getz

Some years ago, New Yorker cover artist Arthur Getz created an original woodcut of a mother and daughter for use as a holiday card. He added "Season's Greetings" in pencil and signed the print with his initial G. The image is intimate and tender. It remains quite endearing.

I asked the artist's daughter Sarah Getz whether she was the girl in this image. She replied, "I’m not the child in the picture, necessarily—I think it was simply a whimsical mother/daughter image my dad pulled from his head—but I’ve always thought it very sweet."

Note:  My thanks to Sarah Getz for sending the card. The Arthur Getz website is here.

Attempted Bloggery is always pleased to receive scans or photographs of original art by Arthur Getz, the most prolific of The New Yorker's cover artists.


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