Yesterday Nate D. Sanders Auctions of Los Angeles sold an original 1941 cartoon from The New Yorker by the matchless Charles Addams.
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| Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, April 26, 1941, p. 19 |
Addams certainly knew how to draw Boy Scout uniforms and how to do shading.
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| Charles Addams Matted original art The New Yorker, April 26, 1941, p. 19 And he even rendered some convincing knots. |
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| Charles Addams Matted original art The New Yorker, April 26, 1941, p. 19 The bidding started at $10,000. Two days before the auction there were as yet no bids. Smart bidders don't announce their intentions too early. |
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| Charles Addams Nate D. Sanders auction listing accessed November 18, 2025, two days before the sale |
And sold—to the highest bidder!
Here's how it looked in The New Yorker:
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| Charles Addams The New Yorker, April 26, 1941, p. 19 |
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| Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, April 26, 1941, p. 19 |
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| With cartoons by Richard Taylor and Charles Addams |
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The Addams art, a horizontal wooded exterior view in no need of words, is balanced on the opposite page of the magazine by a Richard Taylor cartoon, a vertical ornate interior in which the speaker delivers a self-serving caption.
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"Modernism, if I may make a suggestion, Madam, is becoming just a little dated." Richard Taylor The New Yorker, April 26, 1941, p. 18 |
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