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Richard Decker (born 1907),^[1] a cartoonist and illustrator, studied at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art^[1] and became famous for his cartoons published in The New Yorker^[2].

He did illustrations for "Look" and the "Saturday Evening Post"^[3] and did a number of advertisements for the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin"^[4].

Ben Yagoda has called Decker, along with Robert J. Day, "underrecognized New Yorker masters."^[5]

References

Further reading

• The New Encyclopaedia Britannica By Encyclopaedia 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

• Lorenz, Lee (1995). The art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995. New York: A. Knopf. pp. 45,53. ISBN 0-679-43679-0. OCLC 31934660.  

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

• Mankoff, Robert (2004). The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. pp. 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. ISBN 1-57912-322-8. OCLC 55109076.  

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