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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1973.1.1793
James Stevenson
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1973.1.1793

James Stevenson

1929 - 2017
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James Stevenson, a cartoonist who skewered the self-important and deflated the grandiose with a deft touch in almost 2,000 cartoons for the New Yorker magazine, died Friday at his home in Cos Cob from complications of pneumonia. He was 87. Stevenson was born in New York City on July 11, 1929; He graduated from The Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., and Yale University. Stevenson served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1951 to 1953, attaining the rank of second lieutenant. He was a reporter for Life Magazine from 1954 to 1956, and he later joined the New Yorker, where he produced nearly 2,000 images.
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