Saxon, Vietor, Park, Shermund, Starke, Hokinson, Soglow, Hamilton, Shellhase Originals On Ebay
There’s life in original cartoon art — the markings, the “mistakes,”(often covered up with white out), the errant fingerprints, the ink and/or pencil or watercolors on paper, the aged (or not) color of the paper –all of it. Here’s a gathering of some of the original art by New Yorker contributors presently offered on Ebay. For the most part these are not New Yorker drawings. I’m not linking to each piece; you can easily find them by entering the artist’s name in Ebay‘s search box. Prices are all over the place, from W.B. Park’s at $29.99 to Barbara Shermund’s at $5,000.00, and the collection of Soglow spot drawings at five times that.
It’s not too often you see a Charles Saxon original drawing on Ebay. There are presently two offered in one “lot” (both non-New Yorker drawings). Here’s one of them :
Also listed is a Spill fave artist of yore, Dean Vietor. This one’s titled, Man With Two Bosses (oddly typed in at the bottom of the piece. I wonder if this was Mr. Vietor’s usual way of indicating a caption or title)
If you’re a W.B. Park fan, you’ve got a cartload to choose from. Here’s one:
Leslie Starke. There might be more Starke originals on Ebay than any other New Yorker artist (I believe all of them are non-New Yorker pieces). Here’s one:
This collection of Otto Soglow‘s Talk Of The Town spot drawings is the priciest New Yorker artist Ebay offering (the seller is offering the lot for $25,000.00):
Here’ a beauty from Barbara Shermund (the caption: “At first he was just going to name his yacht after me — but I soon put a stop to that.”)
From Rea Irvin: what looks like a cover idea (this piece has been on Ebay for quite a long time):
George Shellhase. Here’s a 1931 New Yorker original from Mr. Shellhase:
From William Hamilton, this original on what looks like notebook paper:
And finally, this Helen Hokinson original that’s been offered for a very very long time:
