Artist

Rea Irvin

1881–1972 · born in San Francisco · died in Frederiksted

Rea Irvin was an American artist born in San Francisco in 1881. He drew magazine covers and cartoons, and designed the first cover of The New Yorker in 1925, featuring the dandy Eustace Tilley. He lived in New York and died in the Virgin Islands in 1972.