# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rea-irvin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:15:24.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rea-irvin"
name: "Rea Irvin"
slug: "rea-irvin"
description: "Rea Irvin was an American graphic artist and cartoonist. Although never formally credited as such, he served de facto as the first art editor of The New Yorker. He created the Eustace Tilley cover portrait and the New Yorker typeface. He first drew Tilley for the cover of the magazine's first issue on February 21, 1925. Tilley appeared annually on the magazine's cover every February until 1994. As one commentator has written, \"a truly modern bon vivant, Irvin was also a keen appreciator of the century of his birth. His high regard for both the careful artistry of the past and the gleam of the modern metropolis shines from the very first issue of the magazine ...\""
tagline: "American cartoonist, illustrator, art editor (1881–1972)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/1867-1917-NewYearReaIrvin.jpg/330px-1867-1917-NewYearReaIrvin.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1881-08-26"
deathDate: "1972-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.38
  momentum:             10.3731431498483
  historical:           3.955905333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ريا إيرفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ريا ايرفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rea_Irvin"
    title: "Rea Irvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rea_Irvin"
    title: "Rea Irvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7300143"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump