Richard Decker
Richard Decker (May 6, 1907 – November 1, 1988)
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
- ^ a b The World encyclopedia of cartoons By Maurice Horn, Richard Marschall, 1980 Page 191
- ^ Richard Decker's Work from The New Yorker
- ^ a b c St. George, Donna. "Richard Fulmer Decker, 81, Artist; Drew Famous Bulletin Ad Cartoons". The Inquirer. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ The art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995 By Lee Lorenz
- ^ Cartooning By Roy Paul Nelson, 1975 Page:38 and The design of advertising By Roy Paul Nelson, 1977 Page:58
- ^ Yagoda, Ben (2006-12-03). "Laughter in the Dark". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
Further reading
- The New Encyclopædia Britannica By Encyclopædia 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
- 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. OCLC 56066386.
- OCLC 55109076.
- OCLC 42842466.
- The American treasury, 1455-1955 By Clifton Fadiman, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Pages:vii, 244, 1076