Robert Maxwell (Bob) Weber - Artist Info

About Robert Maxwell (Bob) Weber

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    The following obituary is from The New York Times, Art & Design section

    "Robert Weber, Whose New Yorker Cartoons Twitted the Overprivileged, Dies at 92"
    By Anita Gates, November 2, 2016

    Robert Weber, whose elegant and witty cartoons about the privileged and the self-involved were staples of The New Yorker for 45 years, died on Oct. 20 in Branford, Conn. He was 92.

    The death was confirmed by his wife, Debora Graves.

    From 1962 to 2007, Mr. Weber drew 1,481 cartoons for the magazine, as well as art for 11 covers. Over those decades, the well-dressed people he depicted, often at parties or entertaining at home, were an overachieving bunch.

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