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Beginning in 1928, Adolph Kronengold contributed five covers to The New Yorker, joining Ilonka Karasz and Theodore G. Haupt in using vivid colors and abstract shapes and by navigating a well defined sense of the physical point of view on the local scenery.
Adolph K. Kronengold's first cover, a bird's eye view of the city skyline, it's elevated trains, and underlying traffic, appeared September 22, 1928 a few weeks after a more atypical scene by Karasz of children playing around the fountain at the Fifth Avenue library August 18, 1928 and just weeks prior to the appearance of a signature Karasz design of urban folks parading along country roads to admire the autumn leaves October 6, 1928.
In the publication's early years The art committee of The New Yorker was careful not to create discomfort by displaying art burdened by excessive lower-class sympathies on the cover of the New Yorker and kept its focus on innovations in idea and design, which gave an edge to work by Ilonka Karasz and other scene setters like Adolph Kronengold.
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references:
20th Annual of Advertising, Editorial & Television Art & Design. Art Directors Club (New York, N.Y.) ; 1941.
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Text excerpted from:
-Lee, Judith Y. Defining New Yorker Humor. University Press of Mississippi; 2000. p. 180
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