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].
He did illustrations for "Look" and the "Saturday Evening Post"[3] and did a number of advertisements for the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin"[4].
Ben Yagoda has called Decker, along with Robert J. Day, "underrecognized New Yorker masters."[5]
References
Further reading
- 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
- Topliss, Iain (2005). The comic worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 54, 60, 91, 320. ISBN 0-8018-8044-0. OCLC 56066386.
- Mankoff, Robert (2004). The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. pp. 7, 52, 55, 58, 59, 62, 67, 71, 76, 78, 90, 94, 102, 104, 118, 119, 120, 132–33, 135, 139, 147, 151, 152, 160, 164, 168, 186, 187, 214, 219, 246, 255, 258, 263, 268(2), 271, 283, 302, 307. ISBN 1-57912-322-8. OCLC 55109076.
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