Monday, May 3, 2021 – The excitement that comes with seeing the new New Yorker cover

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MONDAY, MAY 3, 2021

THE 

353rd EDITION

FROM THE ARCHIVES

ARTHUR GETZ

NEW YORKER 

COVER ARTIST

FOR DECADES

Arthur Kimmig Getz

(May 17, 1913 – January 19, 1996)

American illustrator best known for his fifty-year career as a cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. Between 1938 and 1988, two hundred and thirteen Getz covers appeared on The New Yorker, making Getz the most prolific New Yorker cover artist of the twentieth century.

Getz was also a fine artist, painted murals for the Works Progress Administration Program, wrote and illustrated children’s books, and taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, the University of Connecticut, and the Washington Art Association in Washington, Connecticut.

In addition to his New Yorker covers and spot drawings, Getz’s illustrations were published in American Childhood, Audubon, Collier’s, Consumer Reports, Cue, Esquire, Fortune, The Nation, The National Guardian, The New Masses, The New Republic, PM, Reader’s Digest, Saturday Review, Stage, and The Reporter.

TURKEYS IN THE TUNNEL, 1956

JULY 5, 1967

CONSTRUCTION NEXT DOOR, JULY 9, 1955

Getz relocated to the country-side and his work changed in later years

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THE DAKOTA
CENTRAL PARK WEST AT 72 STREET

HARA REISER, ANDY SPARBERG, ED LITCHER, ARON EISENPREISS,
VERN HARWOOD, GLORIA HERMAN, ALEXIS VILLEFANE, 
NINA LUBLIN, HARRIET LIEBER, JAY JACOBSON
ARLENE BESSENOFF, THOM HEYER  ALL GOT IT

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff

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