Richard Decker
Richard Decker, (May 6, 1907 – November 1, 1988)[1] a cartoonist and illustrator, studied at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art[1] and became famous for his cartoons published in The New Yorker.[2]
Works
Decker worked almost 40 years as a contract cartoonist for the New Yorker. He started out in 1929 with the magazine and then eventually worked his way up to becoming well-known on the New Yorker's pages for cartoons. Decker's humor covers a broad spectrum from changing times to even his large family. Decker's work in ink and watercolor had been featured in several area exhibitions.[3] He did illustrations for "Look" and the "Saturday Evening Post"[4] and did a number of advertisements for the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin".[3][5]
Recognition
Ben Yagoda has called Decker, along with Robert J. Day, "underrecognized New Yorker masters."[6]
Death
Decker died in November 1988 at Cathcart Health Care Center in Devon, Pennsylvania. He was a resident of Berwyn, Pennsylvania.[3]
References
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- The New Encyclopaedia Britannica By Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, 2002 Page: 547
- The world through a monocle By Mary F. Corey, Pages:235, 236
- Imagining Philadelphia By Philip Stevick, Page:130
- The perennial Philadelphians By Nathaniel Burt, Pages:34, 613
- Comic art in America By Stephen D. Becker, 1959, Pages: 128,130, 384
- Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s By Robert Mumford, Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz, Page:255
- The Eleanor Roosevelt encyclopedia By Henry R. Beasley, Holly Cowan Shulman
- Cartoon cavalcade By Thomas Craven, Florence Weiss, Sydney Weiss, 1943, Pages: 262,299,397
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- The American treasury, 1455-1955 By Clifton Fadiman, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Pages:vii, 244, 1076
External links
- The New Yorker Magazines's Timeline (refer Year 1941)
- Cartoons and Cinema of The 20th Century, A Persecptive
- Some More Work of Richard Decker for The New Yorker
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The World encyclopedia of cartoons By Maurice Horn, Richard Marschall, 1980 Page 191
- ↑ Richard Decker's Work from The New Yorker
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- ↑ The art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995 By Lee Lorenz
- ↑ Cartooning By Roy Paul Nelson, 1975 Page:38 and The design of advertising By Roy Paul Nelson, 1977 Page:58
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