The Other Side Last week I showed you the rabbits side of a Thurber piece recently arrived here at the Spill. The piece is unusual in that it has drawings on both sides. As promised, here’s the other side: Here’s what the drawings looked like when published in The New Yorker, July 29, 1939 as part V of Thurber’s series,
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Thanks to the enormous generosity of a very good friend of the Spill, our Thurber original collection doubled in size recently, from one drawing to two — or has it tripled to three? The piece is unusual in that both sides contain original Thurber drawings. As you can see there’s an issue date on the piece: Aug 26,1939. Here’s how
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3 More Thurber At Auction The latest Swann Illustration auction catalog is now online. Among the work by New Yorker contributors Charles Addams, William Steig, Edward Sorel, George Price, Lee Lorenz, R.O. Blechman, Frank Modell, John Held, Jr., Barbara Shermund, Rea Irvin, Mischa Richter, C.E.M. (Charles E. Martin), and Richard Taylor, are 3 drawings by James Thurber. “Are there
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No matter how many times I look through ancient issues of The New Yorker, I always come across something surprising (I miss things no matter how many times I look at an issue). I can’t explain how I missed the ad below that appeared in the issue of January 4th 1936. It features Thurber’s classic drawing, “What have you done
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