Rea Irvin
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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.
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Cartoon for New Year 1917 caricatures how the holiday was noted 50 years earlier contrasted with contemporary celebrations
Cover of Life magazine in 1913 showing a Greek-style scene of suffrage activists led by one resembling Susan B. Anthony
1916 illustration for a short story, "Why He Married Her"
Murad ad by Rea Irvin, 1918
Murad cigarettes ad by Rea Irvin in 1900Awards 1
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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 ..."
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