Saul Steinberg's collection The Art of Living dates from 1949. This copy is dedicated somewhat cryptically to his gallerist Betty Parsons.
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| Photo by Joe Petro III |
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| Photo by Joe Petro III |
Note: Thanks again to Joe Petro III for providing these images. Two more of his Steinberg books dedicated to Betty Parsons will be showing up here very soon.
If you have access to a personalized book from Saul Steinberg akin to this one, why not submit a scan or two?
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Saul Steinberg's collection The Inspector was published in 1973. This copy is warmly inscribed to his longtime art dealer Betty Parsons.
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| Photo by Joe Petro III |
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| Photo by Joe Petro III |
Note: Thanks to Joe Petro III for sending me images of this unique book from his collection. Joe has three other books dedicated by Steinberg to Betty Parsons and it's a safe bet you will be seeing them here.
By the way, books personalized by Saul Steinberg are something I'm looking to post on this blog. (Hint.)
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Here are my entries in the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #97. The drawing of "an unusual library scene" is by Jeremy Nguyen.
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| "It's in lieu of late fees." "We specialize in true crime." "We have the entire corpus." "First their library cards expired." "We also collect dead letters." "This doesn't belong in the humor section." |
October 28, 2020 Update: The Winner
Scott Burns has come through yet again with a scan of another copy of Virgil Partch's The Wild, Wild Women (1952). Vip, as he is also known, has inscribed this book to Maurice and included a drawing of what can only be called a book chest.
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| Scan by Scott Burns |
Note: My thanks once again go to Scott Burns of Burns Bizarre for this and the previous Partch books and originals he's scanned for the blog. This is the tenth post to which he's contributed. I do keep count.
Lie back and enjoy my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #729 for October 19, 2020. The drawing is by Michael Maslin.
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| "I'm exhausted. Let's go to bed." |
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October 26, 2020 Update: The Finalists
November 2, 2020 Update: I voted late for Perth, but could my ballot still arrive by Election Day?
November 9, 2020 Update: The Winner
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| Scan by Scott Burns |
Note: My thanks to Scott Burns of Burns Bizarre for this scan of original Partch art from one of his books. He is now up to nine contributions to this blog.
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| Scan by Scott Burns |
Note: Scott Burns has come through once again with a great scan of a Partch rarity. This is his eighth contribution to this blog. You'll see, we'll be up to ten in no time.
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| Scan by Scott Burns |
I did not enter the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #96 this week and, given my preliminary caption, I don't think anything was lost. The drawing of a pair of sheep cowboys is by Lars Kenseth.
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| "No, I don't think we look alike to them." |
October 23, 2020 Update: The Winner
Lars Kenseth's Captions:
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| https://more.cartooncollections.com/sheep-herding-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood/ |
