Thread by @dean_frey

I came across four @NewYorker cartoons about Ad Reinhardt’s black paintings in 1967. There may be more.
Robert J. Day, March 4
Everett Opie, April 22 & May 27
William O’Brien, August 19
Reinhardt died on August 30, 1967

I knew there would be more Ad Reinhardt cartoons in the @NewYorker
J. B. Handelsman, October 30, 1989 @metmuseum
Robert Day, April 20, 1968
Everett Opie, January 26, 1976

... and even more!
James Stevenson, January 18, 1958
Ad Reinhardt painted his first black painting, "Abstract Painting" at the @MuseumModernArt, in 1963
moma.org/learn/moma_lea…

More Ad Reinhardt black paintings in @NewYorker cartoons
Richard Olden, March 20, 1971
Benoit van Innis, December 3, 1990

Here's another:
Arnie Levin, July 26, 1976

Ad Reinhardt was himself a very fine cartoonist, but he never had one published in the @NewYorker
"He is indeed the most austere of the Abstract Expressionists, but he is also by far the funniest - maybe the only funny one."
- Robert Storr

Ad Reinhardt's cartoons seem completely relevant today. As in today today.

Ad Reinhardt, "Politcal Cartoon"
Critique, 1946

Ad Reinhardt's "How to Look" cartoons are a basic primer on art, especially abstract art in America. More here, with full-size pictures:
adreinhardtfoundation.org/archive/#artco…

Ad Reinhardt goes back to basics, in "How to Look at Things (again)", 1946
"Art is not a bag of trade-tricks or hack-skills, a property of the few, but a dangerous propaganda for changing & controlling the world so that everyone can be creative."

One of the things I love about Ad Reinhardt's "How to Look" comics is his @holdengraber-level #quotomania

"Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness."
- J. K. Huysmans

Ad Reinhardt
American League Against War and Fascism
1937 calendar
page for the month of April