Background:

While The New Yorker magazine is known for the quality of its writing, many people also recognize the distinctive cover style and cartoons featured in the magazine.

On this page we feature a selection of original cover art from the early 1990s.  While these are the most recent New Yorker covers presented on our Web site they still portray the range of subject matter - holidays, sporting activities and life in the "big city" - and humor that has been a hallmark of New Yorker covers since the magazine was first published in 1925.

The appeal of The New Yorker covers is best summarized by the following description from a book on the history of the magazine:   The covers capture "A special moment, fleetingly observed".