Attempted Bloggery: Thomas Eastwood: Holiday Packages

Friday, December 8, 2023

Thomas Eastwood: Holiday Packages

An original New Yorker spot drawing by Thomas Eastwood depicts Christmas packages too numerous for a neighborhood mailbox to accomodate.

At one time, a price tag of $40 was affixed to the back of this art. In May on the eBay auction site, it was priced at $165 with a Best Offer option.

EBay does not disclose best offers, even when they are accepted.

Thomas Eastwood
eBay listing ended May 24, 2023

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Thomas Eastwood
eBay item description

The Eastwood spot is currently available from Curated Cartoons. The artwork has been rephotographed. Now the images are in sharp focus, revealing even the texture of the paper.

The verso includes a preliminary sketch of a tugboat.

The new listing helpfully includes the artwork's publication date, one of the more difficult pieces of information to track down with only the season and the era known. We now can appreciate that the art was published eighty-five years ago in the back pages of the magazine.