Peter Arno
Mr. Peters, ever the dashing young man about town used the pen name Peter Arno for his cartoons. He may even have been the best looking and best dressed cartoonist of all time. It's been said that his cartoons sold more issues of The New Yorker than any other contributor. Those were the days, my friends. No one did it any better than Peter Arno.
One of the early Peter Arno cartoons for The New Yorker issue of 24 August 1929.
Arno joined the magazine at the age of 25 that year.
The examples above appeared in compilations of Arno's work published in book form by Horace Liverwright in 1929 and 1931 as Peter Arno's Paradeand Peter Arno's Circus and were copyright by Peter Arno in various issues of The New Yorker Magazine.
An early cover, from 1929, drawn with a much more delicate brush line than his page cartoons of the period.
A rare pantomime cartoons and a powerful comment on the Roaring Twenties.
I feel certain that the runner is a caricature of an acquaintance or an observed jogger.
The following cartoons appeared in this compilation published by Simon & Schuster in 1949.
