Arnold Roth (born February 25, 1929) is an American freelance cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines and newspapers.
Novelist John Updike wrote, "All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so."
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Roth graduated in 1950 from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) and began freelancing in 1951.
The following year, he married Caroline Wingfield, and the couple later moved to New York City. They have two sons, Charles and Adam.
Roth's art is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Cartoon Art (San Francisco), Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum and Library and the Karikature and Cartoon Museum (Basel, Switzerland), plus many private collections.
His traveling solo exhibition, Free Lance, A Fifty Year Retrospective (2001–04), was seen in Philadelphia, Columbus, San Francisco, New York City, London and Basel. He has staged solo exhibitions at the Philadelphia Print Club, University of the Arts, New York's Century Association and Swarthmore College.
In addition to his artwork, Roth plays the saxophone.
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