Ed Koren Explained

Birth Name:Edward Benjamin Koren
Birth Date:13 December 1935
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Death Place:Brookfield, Vermont, U.S.
Children:3
Known For:Cartoons

Edward Benjamin Koren (December 13, 1935 – April 14, 2023) was an American writer, illustrator, and political cartoonist, most notably featured in The New Yorker.[1]

Early life and education

Edward Benjamin Koren was born in a Jewish family in New York City on December 13, 1935,[2] and attended Horace Mann School and Columbia University, graduating in 1957.[3] He did graduate work in etching and engraving with S. W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris, France, and received an M.F.A. degree from Pratt Institute in 1964.[2]

Professional career

Koren began his cartooning career at Columbia while drawing for the college's humor magazine. After college, he went on to teach art at Brown University until 1977.[2]

In May 1962, The New Yorker accepted one of his cartoons. It featured a sloppy-looking writer, cigarette dangling from his lips, sitting before a typewriter. Printed on his sweatshirt is one word: "Shakespeare".[2] From then The New Yorker published thousands of his cartoons and illustrations, including dozens of full-color drawings published on the magazine's cover. After several years of continued publishing, he quit his teaching job at Brown University and devoted himself full-time to cartooning.[2]

Koren also contributed to many other publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, GQ, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, Fortune, Vanity Fair, The Nation, and The Boston Globe. He collaborated with numerous contemporary humorists and authors, notably George Plimpton and Delia Ephron.[2] Koren's cartoons, drawings, and prints have been widely exhibited in shows across the United States as well as in France, England, and Czechoslovakia.[2]

Koren's political cartoons did not appeal to a specific political party; rather, they were made in order to portray the middle class's frustration with the government.[4]

Columbia University's Wallach Gallery exhibited a retrospective of his work, "The Capricious Line" in 2010.[5] Luise Ross Gallery (New York, NY) exhibited his work concurrently in the exhibition "Parallel Play – Drawings 1979 – 2010".[6]

Personal life

In 1961, Koren married Miriam Siegmeister. Together they had a daughter and a son. They were divorced in 1973. In 1982, he married Catherine Curtis Ingham. The couple had a son.[2]

Koren resided with his family in Vermont where he was a member of the Brookfield Volunteer Fire Department, formerly serving as its captain.[2]

He died of lung cancer in Brookfield, Vermont, on April 14, 2023, at the age of 87.[2]

Honors

Koren received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Union College, and received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 1970. He received the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2007. Koren was appointed Vermont's second Cartoonist Laureate in 2014, serving in the position until 2017.[7]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. Allen . Emma . April 15, 2023 . Edward Koren, the Cheery Philosopher of Cartoons . April 16, 2023 . The New Yorker . en-US . April 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230415231724/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/edward-koren-the-cheery-philosopher-of-cartoons . live .
  2. News: McFadden . Robert . Edward Koren, 87, Whose Cartoon Creatures Poked Fun at People, Dies . The New York Times . April 14, 2023 . April 14, 2023 . April 14, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230414203609/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/arts/edward-koren-dead.html . live .
  3. Web site: Columbia College Today . June 10, 2022 . www.college.columbia.edu . June 10, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220610201340/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/feb01/feb01_bookshelf2.html . live .
  4. News: Edward Koren, 87, Whose Cartoon Creatures Poked Fun at People, Dies . The New York Times . April 14, 2023 . April 14, 2023 . McFadden . Robert D. . April 14, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230414203609/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/arts/edward-koren-dead.html . live .
  5. Web site: Edward Koren: The Capricious Line |. wallach.columbia.edu. April 16, 2023. February 25, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230225172619/https://wallach.columbia.edu/exhibitions/edward-koren-capricious-line. live.
  6. News: His Shaggy World (and Welcome to It). Ken. Johnson. The New York Times . May 20, 2010. NYTimes.com. February 24, 2017. July 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160718215200/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/arts/design/21koren.html. live.
  7. http://digital.vpr.net/post/ed-koren-be-vermonts-next-cartoonist-laureate#stream/0 Ed Koren To Be Vermont's Next Cartoonist Laureate
  8. Web site: VERY HAIRY HARRY | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com. April 17, 2023. August 3, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120803191111/http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/edward-koren/very-hairy-harry/. live.
  9. Web site: VERY HAIRY HARRY by Edward Koren . April 17, 2023 . April 17, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230417201756/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780060509071 . live .
  10. Web site: Edward Koren | Ed Koren Bio | Bio of Cartoonist Edward Koren. www.edwardkoren.com. April 17, 2023. April 15, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415053022/http://www.edwardkoren.com/bio/. live.
  11. Book: Quality Time : Parenting, Progeny, and Pets. August 17, 1995. Villard. 9780679444367 . Biblio.com. April 17, 2023. April 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230417201751/https://www.biblio.com/book/quality-time-parenting-progeny-pets-edward/d/1317486568. live.
  12. News: FICTION – the Washington Post . . April 17, 2023 . August 27, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170827220844/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1989/11/05/fiction/80c1e3a8-4b98-40ca-9c9f-a116741145bf/ . live .
  13. Web site: Caution: Small Ensembles. Designers & Books. April 17, 2023. November 8, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181108234703/http://www.designersandbooks.com/book/caution-small-ensembles. live.
  14. Book: KOREN, Edward. Well, there's your problem. April 17, 1980. Pantheon Books. 9780394512662 . Biblio.com. April 17, 2023. April 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230417201746/https://www.biblio.com/book/well-theres-your-problem-koren-edward/d/225401559. live.
  15. Web site: Are You Happy? And Other Questions Lovers Ask by Koren, Edward – 1978. Biblio.com. April 17, 2023. April 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230417201811/https://www.biblio.com/book/you-happy-other-questions-lovers-ask/d/545402035. live.
  16. News: Don't Talk to Strange Bears; By Edward Koren. Illustrated by the author. Unpaged. New York: Windmill Books. Distributed by Simon & Schuster. $4.95. (Ages 4 to 7). M. F.. O'c. The New York Times . April 6, 1969. NYTimes.com.

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