Sunday Spill: A Great Sunday Read: “A New Yorker State Of Mind”

Great Sunday Read: A New Yorker State Of Mind

This week’s installment of David O’s A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine is particularly enjoyable. Read it here!

–Cover by W. Cotton

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Here’s Mr. Cotton’s A-Z Entry:

William Cotton Born, 1880, Newport, Rhode Island; died, Sergeantsville, New Jersey, January 1958. 55 covers for The New Yorker (Mr. Cotton was strictly a cover artist for the magazine). Besides The New Yorker he was also known for his work appearing in Vanity Fair. His New York Times obit tells us he was also a playwright — his “The Bride the Sun Shines On” was produced in 1931.

Here’s his self-portrait, and his first New Yorker cover (November 5, 1932):

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