Authur Getz

THE NEW YORKER October 5th, 1957

Arthur Kimmig Getz was an American illustrator best known for his fifty-year career as a cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. Between 1938 and 1988, two hundred and thirteen Getz covers appeared on The New Yorker, making Getz the most prolific New Yorker cover artist of the twentieth century.

I love the way Arthur captures everyday life in New York City in the 50 and 60s. He has a odd eye for perspective and his use of light is apparent in most of his paintings. Getz was a known workaholic or in essence a true artist where the time clock didn’t matter only deadlines.

While working at eh New Yorker he was one the cover a record number of times and for all of those covers there was ten times the amount of sketches behind the scene.

THE NEW YORKER October 5th, 1957

I love the way Arthur captures everyday life in New York City in the 50 and 60s. He has a odd eye for perspective and his use of light is apparent in most of his paintings. Getz was a known workaholic or in essence a true artist where the time clock didn’t matter only deadlines.

While working at eh New Yorker he was one the cover a record number of times and for all of those covers there was ten times the amount of sketches behind the scene.

Arthur captures everyday life in New York City in the 50 and 60s. His use of light to tell the story. Only after our eyes adjust do we notice the performers performing to an empty house. Perhaps a commentary on the current economic landscape of the time period.

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