Peter Arno

Peter Arno's grave in Kensico Cemetery

Peter Arno (January 8, 1904 – February 22, 1968) was a U.S. cartoonist. His cartoons were published in The New Yorker from 1925–1968.

Biography

Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr. in New York, New York, and educated at the Hotchkiss School and Yale University, his cartoons were published in The New Yorker from 1925–1968. They often depicted a cross-section of New York society from the 1920s through the 1960s. He married The New Yorker magazine columnist and fashion editor Lois Long and together they had one daughter, Patricia Arno, born September 18, 1928. Their marriage ended in 1930. Arno died on February 22, 1968 at the age of 64. He is interred at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

Bibliography

• Whoops Dearie!. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1927.
• Parade. New York: H. Liveright,1929.
• Hullabaloo. New York: H. Liveright, 1930.
• Circus. New York: H. Liveright, 1931.
• Favorites. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932.
• For Members Only.New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935.
• Cartoon Revue. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
• Man in the Shower. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944.
• Sizzling Platter. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949.
• Ladies and Gentlemen. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951.
• Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
• Lady in the Shower: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.
• Peter Arno. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1979.

References

The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2004.

Topliss, Iain. The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

A Comics Studies Reader. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.

External links

• Peter Arno at Find a Grave
• Peter Arno on The New Yorker's Cartoon Bank
• Peter Arno, An Appreciation, Searching for Laugh