Yet this oh-so-desirable drawing remained in Addams's possession for ten years, from its publication in 1954 to the year 1964, when he gifted the original to "Minnie & Jim." Amazingly, this suggests it was an original drawing he could not sell and that he did not wish to keep for himself, even in the year when "The Addams Family" had its television premiere. (Perhaps the recipients had something to do with the show.)
The cartoon is an outstanding Addams Family original about the anguish of the daughter Wednesday (who was still nameless in 1954) as a result of her school grades. The original art is full of wonderful, creepy details. Some of the more subtle ones, like the spider web in the door frame, were probably difficult for readers of the printed magazine to appreciate at all. That still left plenty of others to dwell on.
Note: If you have original Charles Addams art, why not go and put it on a stranger's blog?
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| "Oh, she's furious because they put her on the honor roll at school." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, October 16, 1954, p. 25 |
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| "Oh, she's furious because they put her on the honor roll at school." Charles Addams Framed and glazed original art The New Yorker, October 16, 1954, p. 25 |
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| Charles Addams Sotheby's Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana, Part 2, Lot 1120 July 21, 2022 |
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| "Oh, she's furious because they put her on the honor roll at school." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, October 16, 1954, p. 25 |
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| Cartoons by Robert Day and Charles Addams |
Note: If you have original Charles Addams art, why not go and put it on a stranger's blog?
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