66 Pieces of Original Art for "The Talk of the Town" Section of The New Yorker

Price: $25,000.00

Unbound. A collection of 66 pieces of original art for *The New Yorker*. Pen and ink on artists board. Unsigned. Each is roughly 12" x 6¼". The vast majority have a *New Yorker* Editorial Department slip attached with handwritten advice (mostly of the "Rush!! Must have Proof Final Today" variety). A very few have partial slips or the slips detached. Undated but from the subjects and some of the cultural context, probably largely from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

These "spot" drawings appeared as the first illustration for each weekly version of "The Talk of the Town." Subjects are diverse: grumpy policemen, harried mailmen, air, train, and bus travelers; bookstore browsers; George Washington in New York; a king and queen tossing coins to a crowd; LBJ; an old school main frame computer; a man turning a corner confronted by a truncheon bearing "JD" (juvenile delinquent); a ghost picketing a cemetery; real estate shoppers; New York City seceding from the state of New York; a scientist doing a test on mice; an astronaut in a space capsule; a couple watching a television with someone arguing for "peace"; musical notes picketing to save Carnegie Hall; Richard Nixon on television; various animals: birds, horses, porcupines, frogs, polar bears, groundhogs, monkeys, squirrels, and much more.

Soglow was an American cartoonist, probably best known for his long-running syndicated cartoon "The Little King" which first appeared in *The New Yorker* in 1931. His pen and ink drawings, usually uncaptioned, were deceptively simple and in many ways they set the standard for spot art in the magazine. Soglow drew a significant number of the spot drawings that appeared in "The Talk of the Town" for as long as he was at the magazine, well over a quarter of a century. They are still being used today. This collection represents a significant percentage of his output for the Talk pieces.


Item #384198

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Item #384198 66 Pieces of Original Art for "The Talk of the Town" Section of The New Yorker. Otto SOGLOW.