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]

Works

Decker worked almost 40 years as a contract cartoonist for the New Yorker. He started out in 1929 with the magazine and then eventually worked his way up to becoming well-known on the New Yorker's pages for cartoons. Decker's humor covers a broad spectrum from changing times to even his large family. Decker's work in ink and watercolor had been featured in several area exhibitions.^[3] He did illustrations for "Look" and the "Saturday Evening Post"^[4] and did a number of advertisements for the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin".^[3][5]

Recognition

Ben Yagoda has called Decker, along with Robert J. Day, "underrecognized New Yorker masters."^[6]

Death

Decker died in November 1988 at Cathcart Health Care Center in Devon, Pennsylvania. He was a resident of Berwyn, Pennsylvania.^[3]

References

1. The World encyclopedia of cartoons By Maurice Horn, Richard Marschall, 1980 Page 191
2. Richard Decker's Work from The New Yorker
3. St. George, Donna. "Richard Fulmer Decker, 81, Artist; Drew Famous Bulletin Ad Cartoons". The Inquirer. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
4. The art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995 By Lee Lorenz
5. Cartooning By Roy Paul Nelson, 1975 Page:38 and The design of advertising By Roy Paul Nelson, 1977 Page:58
6. Yagoda, Ben (2006-12-03). "Laughter in the Dark". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-08.

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
• Lorenz, Lee (1995). The art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995. New York: A. Knopf. pp. 45, 53. ISBN 0-679-43679-0. OCLC 31934660.
• 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.
• Yagoda, Ben (2000). About town: The New Yorker and the world it made. New York: Scribner. pp. 117, 120, 124. ISBN 0-684-81605-9. OCLC 42842466.
• The American treasury, 1455-1955 By Clifton Fadiman, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Pages:vii, 244, 1076

External links

• The New Yorker Magazines's Timeline (refer Year 1941)
• Cartoons and Cinema of The 20th Century, A Persecptive
• Some More Work of Richard Decker for The New Yorker