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1913 CANTONESE CHINESE ORIENTAL PRINT NEWSPAPER PRESS REA IRVIN PRINT FC4909 :
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1913 CANTONESE CHINESE ORIENTAL PRINT NEWSPAPER PRESS REA IRVIN PRINT FC4909

DATE OF THIS**ORIGINAL** ITEM:1913

THIS ITEM IS A ONE-PAGEPRINTFROM ANORIGINALPERIODICAL.THEREIS ONEPHOTO, SO PLEASELOOK OVER CAREFULLY FOR SIZE AND CONDITION! NOTE: SOME PHOTOS MAY HAVE A BLACK BOX COVERING UP THE NAME OF THE PERIODICAL - IT IS ONLY LAYING ON TOP OF THE ITEM - NOT PERMANENT.

ILLUSTRATOR/ARTIST:

Rea Irvin(August 26, 1881 – May 28, 1972), was an American graphic artist and cartoonist. Although never formally credited as such, he servedde factoas the first art editor ofThe New Yorker. He created theEustace Tilleycover portrait and theNew Yorkertypeface. He first drew Tilley for the cover of the magazine\'s first issue on February 21, 1925. Tilley appeared annually on the magazine\'s cover every February until 1994.As one commentator has written, \"a truly modern bon vivant, Irvin was also a keen appreciator of the century of his birth. His high regard for both the careful artistry of the past and the gleam of the modern metropolis shines from the very first issue of the magazine ...\"

Born inSan Francisco, he studied at theMark Hopkins Art Institutefor six months, started his career as an unpaid cartoonist forThe San Francisco Examiner.The Honolulu Advertiserwas among the other newspapers art departments that he served in.He also contributed to theSan Francisco Evening Post. He also worked as an itinerant actor (for both stage and screen), newspaper illustrator, and piano player.In 1906 he moved to theEast Coast. In the 1910s he contributed many illustrations to bothRed Bookmagazine and its sister publication,Green Book.

BeforeWorld War I, Irvin contributed illustrations regularly toLife, and rose to the position of art editor. (Lifethe humorous weekly, and not to be confused with the more famous magazine of the same name published byHenry Luce). Irvin also contributed toCosmopolitanwhen it was a serious literary publication. He illustratedWallace Irwin\'s\"Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy\" inLife.He would later incorporateJapaneseimagery in satiricalkakemonoforThe New Yorker.

He also created a series of humorousadvertisementsforMurad(turkish tobaccocigarettes).

He also contributed the illustrations for \"Snoot If You Must,\" byLucius Beebe, a noted raconteur of New York\'s cafe society (1943, D. Appleton-Century).

He was fired from his position as art editor atLifein 1924.

However, Irvin had joined an advisory board to help launchThe New Yorkerand then worked on the magazine\'s staff as an illustrator and art editor. When he had first taken the job, Irvin had assumed that the magazine would fold after a few issues,but his work would ultimately appear on the cover of 169 issues ofThe New Yorkerbetween 1925 and 1958.

The magazine\'s first cover, of adandypeering at abutterflythrough amonocle, was drawn by Irvin; the dandy replaced at the last minute a drawing of theater curtains revealing the skyline ofManhattan.The gentleman on the original cover is referred to as \"Eustace Tilley,\" a character created forThe New YorkerbyCorey Ford. Another example is the piece known asThe Unity of the Allied Nations, which appeared on the cover of the July 1, 1944 issue, and depicts thenational personificationsof theAllies(the American Eagle, the Chinese Dragon, theRussian Bearand the British Lion).

Besides covers for the magazine, Irvin also drew various illustrations, department headings, caricatures, and cartoons.

The New Yorkersignature display typeface, used for its nameplate and headlines and the masthead aboveThe Talk of the Townsection, is called \"Irvin\" or \"Irvin type,\" after him.Analphabetdrawn by the American etcher Allen Lewis, who had received training inwoodcuttinginParis, was used as the typographical basis for the \"Irvin type.\"Irvin may have spotted Lewis\' lettering, which was drawn to imitate a woodcut, in a pamphlet entitled \"Journeys To Bagdad\", and liked it so much that Irvin asked Lewis to create the entire alphabet.Uninterested in this project, Lewis suggested that Irvin create the alphabet himself –this became the \"Irvin type.\"

He also added theNew Yorker\'ssquiggly column rules; these provide a delineation between the text and illustrations.He was also responsible for the vertical \"cover strap\" that was used for the magazine\'s margins.

According toJames Thurber, \"the invaluable Irvin, artist, ex-actor, wit, and sophisticate about town and country, did more to develop the style and excellence ofThe New Yorker\'sdrawings and covers than anyone else, and was the main and shining reason that the magazine\'s comic art in the first two years was far superior to its humorous prose.\"Emily Gordon has written that \"Irvin\'s own intimacy with classic form and craft, and his genial willingness to share that expertise ... allowed him to create a complete device: a design, a typeface, a style, and a mood that would be instantly recognizable, and eminently effective, almost a century later.\"

Irvin also created thecomic stripThe Smythes. It ran in theNew York Herald Tribuneduring the early 1930s. and his wife retired to a home inFrederiksted,Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.He died of a stroke there at age 90 on May 28, 1972.

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1913 CANTONESE CHINESE ORIENTAL PRINT NEWSPAPER PRESS REA IRVIN PRINT FC4909

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