Richard Decker Explained

Richard Decker (May 6, 1907 – November 1, 1988)^[1] a cartoonist and illustrator, studied at the Pennsylvania Museum 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 Yorkers 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".^[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.

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
• Book: Lorenz, Lee . Lee Lorenz

. Lee Lorenz . The art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995 . A. Knopf . New York . 1995 . 45, 53 . 0-679-43679-0 . 31934660 .

• Book: Topliss, Iain . The comic worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg . Johns Hopkins University Press . Baltimore . 2005 . 54, 60, 91, 320 . 0-8018-8044-0 . 56066386.
• Book: Mankoff, Robert . Robert Mankoff

. Robert Mankoff . The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker . Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers . New York . 2004 . 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 . 1-57912-322-8 . 55109076.

• Book: Yagoda, Ben . Ben Yagoda

. Ben Yagoda . About town: The New Yorker and the world it made . Scribner . New York . 2000 . 117, 120, 124 . 0-684-81605-9 . 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

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=OncYAAAAIAAJ&q=cartoonist+richard+decker The World encyclopedia of cartoons
2. http://www.cartoonbank.com/search_results_category.asp?sitetype=1&section=all&keyword=Richard+Decker&advanced=0&x=15&y=10 Richard Decker's Work from The New Yorker
3. Web site: St. George. Donna. Richard Fulmer Decker, 81, Artist; Drew Famous Bulletin Ad Cartoons. The Inquirer. 28 December 2012.
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=i__VAAAAMAAJ&q=%22richard+decker%22+Saturday+Evening+Post The art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995 By Lee Lorenz
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=yXVQAAAAMAAJ&q=richard+decker Cartooning By Roy Paul Nelson, 1975 Page:38
6. News: Ben . Yagoda . Ben Yagoda . Laughter in the Dark . . 2006-12-03 . 2008-12-08.