Revisiting Shellhase
Above: a Shellhase self portrait from Colliers Collects Its Wits (1941)
Looking at Ebay offerings daily as I do, it was fun to see a number of originals by George Shellhase show up not long ago (I’m not linking to any here. Go to Ebay and enter “George Shellhase” in the search box to see what’s being offered). Seeing the Ebay drawings led me to do a little digging beyond what I had placed in his A-Z entry some time back:
George Shellhase (Self portrait source: Best Cartoons of the Year 1943) Born, Philadelphia, 1895; Lived for many years in Greenwich, Connecticut. Died, age 93, in a nursing home, Ocean Ridge, Florida, December 1988. His New York Times (Dec. 16, 1988) obit reads, in part: Shellhase “briefly attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and The Art Students League in New York. His affectionate and gently comic illustrations of American life appeared in publications like The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, The New Yorker and The New York Times.” More on Mr. Shellhase from The Connecticut State Library.
New Yorker work: 15 cartoons, November 19, 1927 – June 15, 1940. (also: 3 Talk Of The Town contributions)
I could find only two books featuring Mr. Shellhase’s work, both published in 1944, both war-related:
And just one photo. Mr. Shellhase is on the left in this 1969 newspaper clipping:
A Shellhase from The New Yorker, January 28, 1933:
