In yesterday's post on New Yorker cartoonist J. B. "Bud" Handelsman, I asked for additional pieces of original art to share here. Longtime contributor David from Manhattan came through with a fine New Yorker drawing. He writes:
The cartoon, 11" x 8", is from Feb. 2, 1987. I bought this years ago on eBay, with Condé Nast the seller for a client who owned that iconic Sam Gross frogs' legs cartoon that brought $30,000 at auction. The attraction for me was the poetry reference in the caption, though taking the photo I was reminded of the artist's care in making sure each man's clothing was rendered in a different shade, even managing a hint of brown in the prosecutor's suit and gray blue in the stubborn gentleman in the witness chair.
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| "Walt Whitman may well have contradicted himself, Mr. Dobkin, but chances are he wasn't under oath at the moment." J. B. Handelsman Original art The New Yorker, February 2, 1987, p. 75 |
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| Detail of the witness |
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| Detail of the judge and attorney |
Here's what we see in print:
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| "Walt Whitman may well have contradicted himself, Mr. Dobkin, but chances are he wasn't under oath at the moment." J. B. Handelsman The New Yorker, February 2, 1987, p. 75 |
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| "Walt Whitman may well have contradicted himself, Mr. Dobkin, but chances are he wasn't under oath at the moment." J. B. Handelsman Original art The New Yorker, February 2, 1987, p. 75 |
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| With a spot drawing by Tom Funk and a cartoon by J. B. Handelsman |
Note: For those who don't recognize the poem "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman, the relevant lines are:
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
My thanks to David from Manhattan for keeping the discussion of J. B. Handelsman going with today's post. This is David's sixty-seventh contribution to Attempted Bloggery and they're all worthwhile.
Let me repeat my call to action since it met with such success yesterday. There is a lot of original art by Bud Handelsman in private collections and very few blogs willing to put it out there for the world to see. Remember, this is a big blog. It can contain multitudes.
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