Rowers, Susan Flint 1930s Linocut Illustration for The New Yorker, with Original Editorial Stamped Cardboard homemade with a hollowed interior

with a hollowed interior

either to carry or to ship it

concealed by the lid

finding only a couple of records of other copies held in library collections

Rowers, Susan Flint 1930s Linocut Illustration for The New Yorker, with Original Editorial Stamped Cardboard homemade with a hollowed interiorSusan Willard Flint (American, 1902 1984) was perhaps best known for her spots published in the New Yorker of which this c. 1938 black ink linocut of two boats of rowers is a great example, found still adhered to a sheet of cardboard stamped by The New Yorker Editorial Department. Feels SO classic New Yorker to me, and indeed Flint's illustrations like this one, contributed just a decade into the publication's run, helped to define the look. Yes,