With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Alice Harvey
Comic Art
1894 – 1983
- Biography/Description of Work
Alice Harvey was one of the first female cartoonists at The New Yorker when it began in 1925. She lived at the Smith Club with fellow New Yorker cartoonist Helen Hokinson. Harvey got married soon after becoming a cartoonist and moved to Westport. In correspondence, Harold Ross, founder of The New Yorker, and editor Katherine Angell, often remarked on her absence. In the first years of the fledgling publication it was crucial that artists be around the offices to go over rough drawings and captions. Harvey’s cartoons may not have appeared as often as others because of her physical distance. Also, the subject of her cartoons shifted to being about country topics and raising children – not subjects that The New Yorker, meant for New York City’s urbane youth in the early years, was interested in. By the 1940s, Harvey was no longer contributing to the magazine.
- Sources view
- Westport Historical Society New Yorker Cover Art Exhibit, http://lizadonnelly.com/archives/country-cartoonists, http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a419827-b704673/alice-harvey-new-yorker-cartoons-posters.htm, http://filboidstudge.blogspot.com/2006/11/life-drawing-sunday-14-alice-harvey.html, http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-July-17-1937-Prints_i10461418_.htm Alice Harvey Obituary - New York Times - 1983-8-4
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