Glen Baxter: The Advent of Spring

Glen Baxter's original artwork from 1992 is currently listed with Chris Beetles in London. Right now it seems as timely as it's ever likely to be.

Glen Baxter
Chris Beetles listing accessed January 14, 2024

https://www.chrisbeetles.com/artwork/24192/with-the-advent-of-spring-i-set-about-one-or-two-minor-improvements-to-the-nursery

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Charles M. Schulz: Baseball Season

Whoever expected to see a spring season without baseball? Even Charlie Brown would be disappointed.

Charles M. Schulz
AbeBooks Listing Accessed January 17, 2020

https://www.abebooks.com/Charles-Schulz-Signed-Charlie-Brown-Drawing/30542135611/bd?cm_ven=nl&cm_cat=trg&cm_pla=want_CM&cm_ite=viewbook

Note: At the time of this posting the drawing of Charlie Brown is remains available for sale.

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Cape Cod 2019: Spring Foliage

Last week in Cape Cod was a great time to view the foliage of late spring, including rhododendrons and irises.

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James Thurber: The Dance of Life

Two James Thurber figures dancing in tandem lead off "The Talk of the Town" section of the New Yorker for May 15, 1954. Spring, evidently, was in the air.

James Thurber
Spot drawing
The New Yorker, May 15, 1954, page 29

https://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1954-05-15#folio=028

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Today's Walk: Colors of Spring

Today's walk revealed more colors of spring and a cat in an unexpected place.

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Today's Walk: A Sucker for Spring

I'm a sucker for spring.

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Today's Walk: Early Spring

Today was cold, windy, and overcast.

A fallen tree threatens some power lines.

Cherry trees

Forsythia

Daffodils

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Ronald Searle: The Interloper

Everyone welcomes the spring, right? Ronald Searle's The Interloper suggests that some of us would rather not have to deal with it, or indeed with nature. The extraordinary original artwork for the cover of Graphis 169 was sold on eBay around 2009 for $4000, and subsequently by a private dealer. Long ago Searle's agent John Locke told me that The New Yorker had rejected this as a cover.

Ronald Searle
The Interloper
Original art
Graphis 169, 1973

http://www.ronaldsearle.co.uk/interloper.htm

Ronald Searle
The Interloper
Graphis 169, 1973

Note:  Happy spring, at least according to the calendar! Attempted Bloggery is always looking for submissions of published and unpublished original book and magazine illustrations by Ronald Searle, a man for all seasons.

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William Von Riegen in College Humor, April 1938

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

—Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Locksley Hall"

Spring is in the air once again in April of 1938. College Humor magazine cartoons by William Von Riegen lightly turn to thoughts of love. Of course, the lover can't be just anybody...

"But, dad—I tell you she's different."
William Von Riegen, College Humor, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 1938, page 33

The women are getting frisky as well. This cartoon is published without a signature, but that might be the loop of Von Riegen's R just discernible in the lower left corner.

"Wait a minute, lady—I'm only the butler."

William Von Riegen [?], College Humor, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 1938, page 34

The cartoonist's depiction of what goes on in the workplace would be absolutely deplorable—if it weren't at least partly true. This line is meant by the boss (and maybe by the editors) to be cute, but it's clear from the secretary's face that the attention is unwanted and even menacing as well.

"Take a kiss, Miss Spencer."

William Von Riegen, College Humor, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 1938, page 39

Note:  The April 1938 number of College Humor shown here is a part of the Steven Boss humor magazine collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. My thanks to librarian Karen Green, the Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia, for helping me to track down this and other issues.


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Doris Matthews: Signs of Spring

How do we know when spring is finally here? Cartoonist Doris Matthews has an unusual answer.

"The signs are about right for spring planting. I saw two poets in the lower pasture this morning."
Doris Matthews, original cartoon art

Detail

Detail

Verso

Verso stamp

Doris Matthews
eBay Listing Ended November 7, 2015

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Doris-Matthews-1950s-Cartoon-The-New-Yorker-Original-Art-Cartoonist-Signed-Ink-/252155102002?hash=item3ab59d8332%3Ag%3AfjAAAOSwo6lWKntB&nma=true&si=YQGb25QThn5Fxe78BW8tTy6VzZY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Doris Matthews
eBay Item Description

"The signs are about right for spring planting. I saw two poets in the lower pasture this morning."
Doris Matthews, original cartoon art

Note:  Surely someone knows when and where this was published. If it's you, step forward, please. If not, never mind.

This is the first time original art by Doris Matthews has appeared on this blog. Anyone with access to other drawings who would like to share them here should get in touch.


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Good Fences... Part 3

This is not your ordinary spring cleaning. Our uphill neighbors continue to ravage their property to no known end.

Note:  There's more here on subject of the garden, including the original "Good Fences..." posts.

He drove the snakes out of Ireland and inspired this blog's two St. Patrick's Day posts.

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It Might as Well be Spring

Never mind the calendar. The garden is convinced it's spring.

"It Might as Well be Spring"
Sung by Louanne Hogan dubbing for actress Jeanne Craig
 Rodgers & Hammerstein's "State Fair" (1945 film version)

Note:  I do like the indoors but occasionally I venture into the garden.

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Winter/Spring

What season is it? In the front yard this morning, winter and spring are asserting themselves equally.

Winter or spring?

Note:  Attempted Bloggery has more seasonal posts on winter and spring.

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Seven by Gahan Wilson

Last spring over the course of two months these seven pieces of original cartoon art by Gahan Wilson were sold individually on eBay. No publication history is known for any of them and it seems likely they are unpublished..

Gahan Wilson, "I told him not to try for a sun tan!"

Gahan Wilson, "There's something a little ominous about this spring!"

Gahan Wilson, "Don't you just love these media frenzies"

Gahan Wilson, "It was a real challenge for the taxidermist."

Gahan Wilson, "His learning how to talk changed everything!"

Gahan Wilson, "Painting past the edges of the canvas is a real breakthrough!"

Gahan Wilson, "Amazing no one's noticed these little ones before!"

eBay Listing Ended April 11, 2015

eBay Bid History
Of the twenty-eight bids, five were in the last two minutes.

eBay Listing Ended April 19, 2015

eBay Item Description

eBay Bid History
A bid two seconds from the close just isn't high enough.

eBay Listing Ended April 26, 2015

eBay Item Description

eBay Listing Ended May 3, 2015

eBay Bid History
The bid amount doubled in the final eleven seconds.

eBay Listing Ended May 10, 2015

eBay Item Description

eBay Bid History
The winning bid was placed in the final four seconds.

eBay Listing Ended May 17, 2015

eBay Item Description

eBay Bid History
The last bid takes it.

eBay Listing Ended May 31, 2015

eBay Bid History
The winning bid was placed in the last two seconds.

Note:   Read more in this blog's archives about Gahan Wilson or about original cartoon art.

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