Comments on: Arthur Getz http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/26/arthur-getz/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:56:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: valiance http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/26/arthur-getz/#comment-29404 valiance Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:21:30 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/26/arthur-getz/#comment-29404 Do you have a post about Glenn Vilppu? Do you have a post about Glenn Vilppu?

]]> By: Daniel van Benthuysen http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/26/arthur-getz/#comment-29176 Daniel van Benthuysen Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:51:05 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/26/arthur-getz/#comment-29176 I just had the most wonderful time gong through the New Yorker website Getz material cover by cover. One can see influences: the late Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis's New York street scene etchings. Of course Getz was very much his own artist but it's easy to see where he fits in the continuum. And now that he's been gone from the scene for a number of years it's also easier to see that he HAD to have been an influence on Gretchen Dow Simpson during her run of New Yorker covers late in Getz's career. One marvels at the way the New Yorker has managed to create a kind of cover encountered nowhere else, a cover genre that is not strictly humor and not enirely whimsy or wistfulness, always illustrated but never belabored. They are in a class by themselves. The current New Yorker cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, himself an enormously witty cartoonist who began his career contributing a weekly cartoon to a newspaper Real Estate section (imagine 52 cartoons a year on the topic of real estate - what a challenge!) deserves a great deal of credit for the marketing of New Yorker covers and cartoons beyond the magazine itself. I just had the most wonderful time gong through the New Yorker website Getz material cover by cover. One can see influences: the late Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis’s New York street scene etchings. Of course Getz was very much his own artist but it’s easy to see where he fits in the continuum. And now that he’s been gone from the scene for a number of years it’s also easier to see that he HAD to have been an influence on Gretchen Dow Simpson during her run of New Yorker covers late in Getz’s career.

One marvels at the way the New Yorker has managed to create a kind of cover encountered nowhere else, a cover genre that is not strictly humor and not enirely whimsy or wistfulness, always illustrated but never belabored. They are in a class by themselves. The current New Yorker cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, himself an enormously witty cartoonist who began his career contributing a weekly cartoon to a newspaper Real Estate section (imagine 52 cartoons a year on the topic of real estate - what a challenge!) deserves a great deal of credit for the marketing of New Yorker covers and cartoons beyond the magazine itself.

]]> By: Li-An http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/26/arthur-getz/#comment-28281 Li-An Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:42:40 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/26/arthur-getz/#comment-28281 Beautiful light. Beautiful light.

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