Rowers, Susan Flint 1930s Linocut Illustration for The New Yorker, with Original Editorial Stamped Cardboard forged iron hand this is just my sort

this is just my sort of slate--much loved and lovingly mended at one corner long ago with a scrap of metal surely cut from some other once functional thing laying around

who grew up in New York City

no chips or breaks

but plenty they could spell out without them

Rowers, Susan Flint 1930s Linocut Illustration for The New Yorker, with Original Editorial Stamped Cardboard forged iron hand this is just my sortSusan 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,