Thursday, May 11, 2017

Claude's Stout Poet

Some prefer their poets thin and starving. Claude Smith's New Yorker cartoon from the April 24, 1954 issue raises the question of just how we size up creative people.

Charles E. Martin
The New Yorker, April 24, 1954

"I hardly think I'd care for a stout poet."
Claude Smith
Original art
The New Yorker, April 24, 1
954, page 39

Detail

Detail

Charles E. Martin
The New Yorker, April 24, 1954

Verso detail

Detail

Detail

"I hardly think I'd care for a stout poet."
Claude Smith

The New Yorker, April 24, 1954, page 39

Verso detail

"I hardly think I'd care for a stout poet."
Claude Smith

The New Yorker, April 24, 1954, page 39

Claude Smith
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"I hardly think I'd care for a stout poet."
Claude Smith
Original art
The New Yorker, April 24, 1954, page 39
"I hardly think I'd care for a stout poet."
Claude Smith
The New Yorker, April 24, 1954, page 39

Drawings by Alfred Frueh and Claude Smith
The New Yorker, April 24, 1954, pages 38-39


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