New Yorker Artists

Saul Steinberg

Famed worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age, Saul Steinberg had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, murals, and sculptures he exhibited internationally in galleries and museums.

Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. She now lives in Manhattan. She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker Magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz on the “New Yorkistan” cover in 2001.

Bob Staake

Bob Staake is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children's book author and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod. A frequent cover artist for The New Yorker, Bob has illustrated many Golden titles including We Planted a Tree, The Donut Chief, I'm a Truck, Little Golden Picture Dictionary, and the award-winning The Red Lemon.

Ana Juan

Ana Juan is an artist. She has contributed over twenty covers to The New Yorker since 1995. Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1961, Juan studied fine arts and later moved to Madrid, where she began to publish her illustrations in magazines and newspapers.

Eric Drooker

Eric Drooker is a painter, graphic novelist, and third-generation New Yorker. His paintings have appeared on more than twenty-five covers of The New Yorker, and hang in numerous collections. His intense graphics and provocative street posters are a regular feature of the global street-art movement.

Jean Jacques Sempe

Jean-Jacques Sempé is a French cartoonist. He is known for the series of children's books he created with René Goscinny, Le petit Nicolas, and also for his poster-like illustrations, usually drawn from a distant or high viewpoint depicting detailed countrysides or cities.

Christoph Niemann

Christoph Niemann’s illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker since 1998. He has contributed twenty covers and is the illustrator for James Surowiecki’s column.

Barry Blitt

Barry Blitt is a cartoonist and an illustrator. Since 1992, he has contributed illustrations and more than eighty covers to The New Yorker, including “Deluged,” which was voted Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2006, and “The Politics of Fear,” a finalist for the same award in 2009.