Bill Peckmann &Daily post &Illustration 10 Jan 2012 06:19 am
Ralph Barton – part 2
- This is the remainder of the book “The Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, American Artist, 1891-1931” by Bruce Kellner. Last week, thanks to the contribution and scans of Bill Peckmann, I was able to post the first half of the book. Today we complete it.
Barton served as an advisory editor to Harold Ross for his new magazine, The New Yorker. He was a major contributor to Judge, Collier’s and Vanity Fair Magazine. He was one of the most popular cartoonists of his day, and he illustrated many covers for books from Balzac to Anita Loos. He committed suicide in 1931.
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on 10 Jan 2012 at 3:27 pm 1.The Gee said …
These are really great.
The caricatures floored me.
Magazine publishing back then must have been a whirlwind of opportunities for artists, especially cartoonists and caricaturists.