Richard Decker (May 6, 1907 – November 1, 1988)
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By Maurice Horn
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, Richard Marschall, 1980 Page 191 a cartoonist and illustrator, studied at the
Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art
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and became famous for his cartoons published in ''
The New Yorker
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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.
He did illustrations for "Look" and the "Saturday Evening Post" and did a number of advertisements for the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin".
Recognition
Ben Yagoda has called Decker, along with Robert J. Day, "underrecognized New Yorker masters."
Death
Decker died in November 1988 at Cathcart Health Care Center in
Devon, Pennsylvania
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Geography
Devon is located ...
. He was a resident of
Berwyn, Pennsylvania
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History
At times, the village has been called Cocheltown, Reesevi ...
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References
Further reading
The New Encyclopædia Britannica By Encyclopædia Britannica, inc, 2002 Page: 547The world through a monocle By Mary F. Corey, Pages:235, 236 Imagining Philadelphia By Philip Stevick, Page:130The perennial Philadelphians By Nathaniel Burt, Pages:34, 613Comic art in America By Stephen D. Becker, 1959, Pages: 128,130, 384Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s By Robert Mumford, Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz, Page:255The Eleanor Roosevelt encyclopedia By Henry R. Beasley, Holly Cowan ShulmanCartoon cavalcade By Thomas Craven, Florence Weiss, Sydney Weiss, 1943, Pages: 262,299,397*
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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)Some More Work of Richard Decker for The New Yorker
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American cartoonists
The New Yorker cartoonists
1907 births
1988 deaths