A dog by cartoonist James Thurber attentively contemplates the state of the globe in a drawing made more than a year before America's entry into the Second World War. Behind the dog there is a bird—perhaps it is a hopeful sign, the dove of peace.
Thurber's art bears the notation "For Thursday / (no caption)." If, as seems likely, this was created for The New Yorker, why was it needed for Thursday? The magazine, in those years, carried a Saturday publication date and the art meetings, I believe, were held on Tuesdays.
The Chris Beetles Gallery of London offers the original, calling it "Possibly drawn for The New Yorker, 1940." That certainly sounds reasonable enough. The title A Dog and a Globe comes from the gallery, which first showed the piece in 2024 in the annual exhibition The British Art of Illustration.
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| James Thurber Chris Beetles Gallery listing accessed July 12, 2025 https://www.chrisbeetles.com/artwork/44058/a-dog-and-a-globe |
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| https://issuu.com/chrisbeetles/docs/illustrators_2024 |
Note: Naturally, I would like to hear from anyone who can take a break from contemplating the state of the globe and instead document this James Thurber cartoon's appearance in print.
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