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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Perfect Sunday morning reading