For more than fifty years, the artist George Booth has drawn cartoons and covers for The New Yorker, filling the magazine with surly partygoers, caterwauling Santas, and cantankerous country folk ...

the cartoon editor at the time, said. Instead of his usual funny gags, George Booth, who died in 2022 at the age of 96, sketched a poignant scene showing an old woman who he named Mrs. Ritterhouse ...