The Brandywine Museum’s exhibition of Barbara Shermund’s cartoons aligns with the New Yorker magazine’s 100th anniversary. Barbara Shermund (right) is pictured with her mother, Fredda Cool, who died ...

“Barbara Shermund had guts and she had moxie, and she was a person who seemed to come out into the world fully formed with knowledge of who she was and how she wanted to live,” said the exhibit’s ...

Barbara Shermund’s single-panel cartoons, drawn with a seemingly off-the-cuff fluidity of line and expression, came to define the magazine’s sense of humor. She knew her lines — and now her posthumous ...

Girlfriend drowns, but is saved by the aquatic creature Anchor, who turns her into a mermaid! Now Girlfriend must defeat Poseidon, god of the sea, to change the spell or she will be half fish forever!

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When Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant imagined a magazine that would capture the erudite sophistication, humor and literary wit of New York City, they sought out writers and artists.

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Barbara Shermund, original cover art for The New Yorker ... The exhibition’s title is drawn from a 1950s-era cartoon by Shermund in which a little girl requests a different kind of fairy ...

14 and 15. Barbara Shermund, Original cover art for The New Yorker, March 18, 1939. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 12 x 8 7/8 in. International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection and Records, The Ohio ...

As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for marking its memories in the public mind. By Sam Lubell Christie’s ...

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After the preschool years, kids still like cartoons, but they want something more complex than straightforward messages about friendship and sharing. They like a bit of conflict, some bad guys (who ...