The Swann Illustration Auction, postponed because of you-know-what, is now on for July 16th. The catalog isn’t online as of this morning, but you can see what’s up for grabs, including original work by some of the masters: Helen Hokinson, Charles Addams, William Steig, Barbara Shermund, Frank Modell (whose Don’t Trust Anyone Over 10 drawing appears here), Edward Sorel, Lee Lorenz, Charles Martin (C.E.M), Gahan Wilson, George Booth (see below), Richard Taylor, and more. Go here to see for yourself.
(Work by New Yorker artists begins in earnest in the lot #200 range, but there are New Yorker artist pieces sprinkled elsewhere. For instance, if you go to lot #121 you’ll find a non-New Yorker piece by the great Rea Irvin).
Left: original George Booth cover art (published Ap
ril 19, 1993) Lot #213
— My thanks to Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery for passing along word of the auction.
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Farley Katz on going back out there.
Mr. Katz has been contributing to The New Yorker since
2007. Visit his website here.