Bowl of Fruit, Susan Flint 1938 Signed Linocut Illustration for The New Yorker, with Original Editorial Stamped Cardboard football shaped and the much worn away

and the much worn away black paint on the steel plate is perfect

or like a web of twisted thorns in the dead of winter

(They require candles a bit smaller than your average taper

but it’s quite finely done

Bowl of Fruit, Susan Flint 1938 Signed Linocut Illustration for The New Yorker, with Original Editorial Stamped Cardboard football shaped and the much worn awaySusan Willard Flint (American, 1902 1984) was best known for her spots as published in the New Yorker of which this bowl of fruit on table black ink linocut is an example, signed and dated 1938 and 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.