Peter Arno
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Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
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Biography
Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr. in New York, New York, and educated at the Hotchkiss SchoolHotchkiss School
The Hotchkiss School is an independent, coeducational American college preparatory boarding school located in Lakeville, Connecticut. Founded in 1891, the school enrolls students in grades 9 through 12 and a small number of postgraduates...
and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, his cartoons were published in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
from 1925–1968. They often depicted a cross-section of New York
New York City
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society from the 1920s through the 1960s. He married The New Yorker magazine columnist and fashion editor Lois Long
Lois Long
Lois Bancroft Long was a popular American writer for The New Yorker during the 1920s. She was known under the pseudonym Lipstick and as the epitome of a flapper....
and together they had one daughter, Patricia Arno, born September 18, 1928. Their marriage ended in 1930. He is interred at Kensico Cemetery
Kensico Cemetery
Kensico Cemetery, located in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, was founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads which served the city...
in Valhalla, New York.
External links
- http://www.cartoonbank.com/bin/venda?ex=co_wizr-locayta&collate=ivtype&collate=pdxtlayout&collate=pdxtstyle&collate=pdxtdecade&collate=pdxtpublicationdate&collate=pdxtartist&collate=pdxtpublished&collate=pdxtperson&collate=pdxtdesigner&collate=pdxtauthor&collate=pdxtlocation&collate=pdxtcity&collate=pdxtstate&collate=pdxtcountry&collate=pdxtoriginalartavailable&fieldpdxtartist=pdxtartist&termtextpdxtartist=Arno%2C%20Peter&typepdxtartist=exact&termorder=keywordsearch%3Artype%3Acatrestrict%3Apdxtartist&template=wz_locayta&pagenum=1&perpage=20&threshold=0&spellcorrect=1&datasource=cartoonbankae&setpagenum=1Peter Arno on The New Yorker's CartoonBank.com]
- Peter Arno, An Appreciation, Searching for Laugh