lee lorenz, the former art editor of "the new yorker", wrote of getz: "[he] seems to have found his particular subject, the special light of manhattan … arthur's paintings are a chronicle of new york's moods to be set alongside guardi's paintings of venice." lorenz also wrote of getz, "he drew inspiration equally from the night clubs of manhattan and the apple orchards of new england, but his covers, taken as a group, seem really to be about the joy of painting itself."