Stan Hunt: Operating Room 3

In an undated ink drawing, cartoonist Stan Hunt reveals the secret of Operating Room 3.

It's all linework; there is no shading.

Stan Hunt's signature

Stan Hunt
Allure Auctioneers listing of July 13, 2025

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/209726956_/?from=alert&utm_source=LA_SavedAlert&utm_campaign=SearchAlert_20250627_B&utm_medium=email&utm_content=item

The item details for this lot provided by Allure Auctioneers identify the artist as Stanley Richard Hunt (1929-2006), a newspaper cartoonist, but this framed drawing is clearly the work of magazine cartoonist Stan Hunt (1912-1990?). The information seems to come from Stan[ley Richard] Hunt's Wikipedia page.

Stan Hunt
Allure Auctioneers item description

Previously, the lot was offered on eBay:

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/226298113191

Note:  I am grateful to Michael Maslin for helping me to disambiguate—a Wikipedia term—the two Stan Hunts. I would be pleased if someone would start a Wikipedia page for the magazine cartoonist Stan Hunt.

If anyone knows where this cartoon was published, please inform the management.

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Stan Hunt: The View From the Porch Swing

In 2016, a rough drawing by cartoonist Stan Hunt changed hands on eBay.

"Darling, your eyes are like limpid pools! . . . What's the
matter[,] aren't you getting enough sleep?"
Stan Hunt

The drawing with Stan Hunt's signature, lower right, in pencil

Typewritten caption (missing a comma)

Verso

Hunt relocated from Manhattan to Rowayton, Connecticut. (Cartoonist Carl Rose also lived in this town.)

The eBay listing identifies Hunt as a newspaper cartoonist. But as a New Yorker cartoonist whose work appeared in the magazine from 1956 to 1990 (according to Ink Spill), Hunt should be recognized for attaining the highest level of magazine cartooning.

Stan Hunt
eBay listing ended June 5, 2016

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Pencil-Drawn-Cartoon-by-STAN-HUNT-Newspaper-Cartoonist-/262493937198?hash=item3d1ddb9e2e%3Ag%3AdAEAAOSwZ8ZW5Cqi&nma=true&si=YQGb25QThn5Fxe78BW8tTy6VzZY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Stan Hunt
eBay item description

In 2016, the piece sold for a best offer of $15.

Note:  The current owner of the original art has posted it here.

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Stan Hunt: From the Paul P. Goldberg Collection

Autograph and drawing collector Paul P. Goldberg's practice for obtaining cartoonists' sketches from the 1950s to the 1970s was to send them self-addressed, stamped, blank postcards or envelopes along with a note requesting a specimen of their artwork. Stan Hunt's disgruntled businessman postmarked in 1970 from New Milford is a typical example, quickly executed and quickly recognizable. A large number of Goldberg's originals have been offered for sale on eBay since late November, work generously sent to him free of charge by some of the best American and European political, comic strip, and gag cartoonists of his time. I thought I might share a few of these here before they disappear from view forever.

Stan Hunt
eBay listing ended November 30, 2023

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176052553323?hash=item28fd8cc66b:g:O2sAAOSwNkxlX5hE

Stan Hunt
eBay item description

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In Pursuit of Charles Addams

After American Frank Shorter won the men's marathon in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, jogging became suddenly popular in America. Cartoonist Charles Addams naturally had his own take on this running boom. An autograph letter by Addams is coming up for sale next week in the Swann Galleries Autographs sale. He's personally responding to a query from one Mr. Bernstein who is looking to acquire a running-themed drawing from the previous issue of the New Yorker. "Can you be a jogger?" is a pretty specific clue here that Mr. Bernstein must be looking for the Addams cartoon published in the March 22, 1976 issue. This would date the Addams letter to the last week of March 1976. The original cartoon art was not available as it was being held for an exhibition at the Nicholls Gallery in November. Was Mr. Bernstein ultimately successful in his pursuit of this Charles Addams original?

Charles Addams
ALS, c. late March 1976

Charles Addams
Swann Galleries
Sale 2492 Autographs
Lot 364
November 8, 2018

https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2492+++++364+&refno=++748193&saletype=

Charles Addams
The New Yorker, March 22, 1976, page 26

Cartoons by Charles Addams and Stan Hunt

https://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1976-03-22#folio=026

Goings On About Town
The New Yorker, November 8, 1976, page 8

https://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1976-11-08#folio=008

November 8, 2018 Update:  Sold!

Hammer Price $80

Note:  I would like to hear from anyone who knows the whereabout of the original Charles Addams jogger cartoon.


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