Richard Decker (May 6, 1907 – November 1, 1988)The World encyclopedia of cartoons By Maurice Horn, Richard Marschall, 1980 Page 191 a cartoonist and illustrator, studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and became famous for his cartoons published in The New Yorker.Richard Decker's Work from The New Yorker
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 Yorker's 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"The art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995 By Lee Lorenz and did a number of advertisements for the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin".Cartooning By Roy Paul Nelson, 1975 Page:38 and The design of advertising By Roy Paul Nelson, 1977 Page:58
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. He was a resident of Berwyn, Pennsylvania.
References
Further reading The New Encyclopædia Britannica By Encyclopædia 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
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