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Rea Irvin
Born: 1881 in San Francisco, California 1881
Died: 1972 in the Virgin Islands of the United States
R. Irvin studied at Mark Hopkins Art Institute. Illustrated several books in the 1920's and 1930's, including Hot Water (1932) by P. G. Wodehouse. Irvin was creator of the clean, all-caps, Art Deco typeface, named "Irvin," that captured the spirit of the Jazz Age, and he was responsible for the general look and feel of the magazine.
Art editor of The New Yorker for 21 years, Rea Irvin is most remembered for his cover design for the first issue of The New Yorker, February 21, 1925 of "Eustace Tilley," the top-hatted Regency dandy who appeared on the cover of the first issue of the New Yorker which is the trademark of the magazine and is reprinted annually on the anniversary date. Likewise, Irvin designed the elegant alphabet still used for its headings and the "squiggly" column rules which contribute to the magazine's uncluttered layout. Irvin's only venture into comics per se was his creation of 'The Smythes', which ran in the New York Herald Tribune during the early 1930s.
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Source:
-Cameron, Ferber, Brown, and Sundberg. A Century of American Illustration: March 22 - May 14, 1972. Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; New York, 1972.
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