Saturday, January 4, 2014

Growing Up Addams

About twelve years ago, Swann Galleries of New York sold this signed copy of Nightcrawlers (1957) which boasts an original drawing by Charles Addams. It shows Wednesday of the Addams Family admiring her fangs in a hand mirror. It is inscribed "For Helen/growing up--/at last."

Charles Addams, drawing of Wednesday in a copy of Nightcrawlers (1957),
signed and inscribed "For Helen/growing up--/at last"

http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=1912+++++++3+&refno=++352449&saletype=




Note:  Other posts regarding the macabre art of Charles Addams may be found here.

Other books with original drawings in them may be seen on the blog here.

The Tee & Charles Addams Foundation website is located here.

News about Charles Addams is covered on Ink Spill here.

His artwork occasionally has been featured on The Pictorial Arts blog here.

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