SOLD – Arthur Getz (1913 – 1996)
Antique Shop
13 x 10 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1950s
New Yorker magazine cover proposal
Signed lower center

Getz was an American illustrator best known for his fifty-year career as a cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. Between 1938 and 1988, Getz created 213 covers for The New Yorker, making him the most prolific New Yorker cover artist of the 20th Century. He was also a fine artist and painted murals for the WPA.

The drawing is a proposal, per a note from the artist’s daughters:
“Yes indeed, I know that piece – I sold it years ago, though I’d have to go into my files to track down where/when. It is a cover concept for the New Yorker. It’s my guess that it was a study on a theme for what eventually became the July 20 1957 cover (image below); rather than antiques, apparently the editor preferred books.”

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