#Barbara Shermund

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Barbara Shermund (American, 1899-1978)

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Barbara Shermund, A Day at the Beach, a cover for The New Yorker, published August 5, 1944.

It's unusual to see a person of color so prominently featured in a mainstream publication at the time, even if it was as a servant. She is reading, though, which suggests that she's a more serious person than her sunbathing mistress.

Photo: The Swann Galleries

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Barbara Shermund "Mother has made such a mess of her life" Gag Cartoon Original Art (c. 1950s)

"Hello Mr. Perkins - isn't it getting past your bedtime?" (circa 1945)

"This guy claims he left his driver's license home in his other pants - I suppose you're gonna pull the same story” (Esquire, June 1942)

"Will they give you a new suit when you get out, dear, like they do in Sing Sing?" (1944)

"Who was that fellow I saw you with at Ciro's last nite?" (1955)

Tunnel of Love / "Mr. Dillon, I'd like to ask your daughter's hand in marriage” (1953)

"It's just that playboy from Akron, Ohio!" (1954)

"Let's play cowboy and indian!" (1959)

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Some Pitiful Melodies

Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth (1885–1965) sought to popularize classical music and improve the musical tastes of the masses by meeting the public wherever he could find them, from vaudeville halls to national radio broadcasts. September 1, 1934 cover by William Steig. Born in a line of three generations of Lutheran clergymen, Spaeth chose a different path and became a musicologist who sought to…

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Barbara Shermund - The New Yorker Cover, Mar 18, 1939

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sketch for a 1928 new yorker cartoon by barbara shermund, captioned "yeah, I s'pose the best thing is to just get married and forget about love"

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Barbara Shermund

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Barbara Shermund - Self-portrait (1920s).

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Barbara Shermund, 1920s self portrait. Croatian temple

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Two originals by Barbara Shermund, one of my favorite cartoonist. The caption on the first is, "Oh, Mrs. Stokes! You have the most charming husband!" and the caption on the second is "And no MEN!"

The auction site that sold these (they sold for a little over a grand) had this nice write-up: Shermund had supplied a groundbreaking feminist voice for The New Yorker from the 1920s until the 1940s, when new art editor James Geraghty clamped down on her satirical bent and imposed outside gagwriters upon her artistry. Shermund had the last laugh when the Hearst Corp. hired her to develop the long-running Shermund's Sallies for The Pictorial Review, with additional syndication to subscribing publications. Reuniting her artistry with her natural sarcasm, the series restored the assertive, self-reliant women characters and their frequent use of men as objectified figures of derision.

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Barbara Shermund - Self-portrait (1920s)

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Cover of "New Yorker" September 6 1941

Illustration by Barbara Shermund

Woman knitting a sweater as she tests the size against the back of a soldier sitting on a bench in front of her.

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A Tadpole on Wheels

Above: British architect Norman Foster's 2010 recreation of R. Buckminster Fuller's 1933 Dymaxion car. (Wikipedia) Despite the limitations of 1930s technology, a few architects and designers were hell-bent on building a streamlined future that until then was mostly the stuff of movies and science fiction magazines. May 5, 1934 cover by Rea Irvin. One of them was R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983),…

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Barbara Shermund - 1947