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 any — you know — cucarachas?”*
Published in The New Yorker September 5, 1936
“Why don’t they put water in that dust bowl?”
Unknown date / unknown publication
Illustration for story “The Elephant and the Hunter” included in Fables for Our Time (1940).
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*Attempted Bloggery posted a piece on this drawing in 2012. Read it here.