James Thurber Heritage Auctions, August 25, 2023 |
The drawing, it turns out, is actually a published New Yorker cartoon from, yes, 1932. It was reprinted in editor Michael J. Rosen's Thurber collection People Have More Fun Than Anybody (1994). Like most New Yorker cartoons, it's better with the caption.
"Then I get this feeling that my feet are trying to tell me something but can't." James Thurber The New Yorker, September 24, 1932, p. 13 |
"Then I get this feeling that my feet are trying to tell me something but can't." James Thurber Original art The New Yorker, September 24, 1932, p. 13 Thurber, James, and Rosen, Michael J., ed. People Have More Fun than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings. Harcourt Brace, 1994, p. 128 |
"You see, political economy is Glenn's hobby. Now he wants to carve up Greenland." Alan Dunn The New Yorker, September 24, 1932, p. 12 |
Note: My thanks to New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin for his Sherlockian ability to track down a ninety-year-old Thurber drawing without the aid of a caption.
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