Title: Collection of 320 original cartoon drawings, most in watercolor, 298 are mounted on stiff leaves and housed in 11 bound volumes, others loose Author: Osborn, Robert Place: No place Publisher: Date: c.1931-33 Description: Two of the volumes are 12¾x11; others are approx. 8½x7¾, bindings are ¾ morocco & cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Important collection of early original cartoons by the noted caricaturist, cartoonist and satiric commentator, who passed away in 1994 at the age of 90. Educated at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University, where he was art editor of the Yale Record, Osborn studied painting in Rome and Paris before returning to teach art and philosophy at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the Navy with the hope of becoming an aviator. He was assigned to an information unit under the command of the photographer Edward Steichen and learned the art of speed drawing for training manuals. As a Navy officer, he created a cartoon character named Dilbert, a blunderer who violated rules of military safety. During the war he made 40,000 drawings for Navy training manuals. In 1946, he achieved his first public recognition for "War Is No Damn Good!"; it was said to be the first antiwar book of the nuclear age. He went on to draw for Harper's, Fortune, Life and Look, and became a regular contributor to The New Republic. Garry Trudeau, creator of the "Doonesbury" strip, called Mr. Osborn "one of the very few masters of illustrative cartooning." The present collection, drawn before his later fame, is quite accomplished, and shows the satirical wit which was his hallmark. Many of the cartoons are in series, such as "The Adventures of Tompkins Ickby" and "Pains and Counterpains"; others stand alone. One volume ("L'Amour"), a series of 32 drawings, has some of the leaves loose, and drawing 4 is not present, resulting in a series of only 31. Lot Amendments Condition: Some fading and minor rubbing to volume spines; except for the detached leaves noted above, in near fine to fine condition. Item number: 189216
Title: Collection of 320 original cartoon drawings, most in watercolor, 298 are mounted on stiff leaves and housed in 11 bound volumes, others loose Author: Osborn, Robert Place: No place Publisher: Date: c.1931-33 Description: Two of the volumes are 12¾x11; others are approx. 8½x7¾, bindings are ¾ morocco & cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Important collection of early original cartoons by the noted caricaturist, cartoonist and satiric commentator, who passed away in 1994 at the age of 90. Educated at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University, where he was art editor of the Yale Record, Osborn studied painting in Rome and Paris before returning to teach art and philosophy at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the Navy with the hope of becoming an aviator. He was assigned to an information unit under the command of the photographer Edward Steichen and learned the art of speed drawing for training manuals. As a Navy officer, he created a cartoon character named Dilbert, a blunderer who violated rules of military safety. During the war he made 40,000 drawings for Navy training manuals. In 1946, he achieved his first public recognition for "War Is No Damn Good!"; it was said to be the first antiwar book of the nuclear age. He went on to draw for Harper's, Fortune, Life and Look, and became a regular contributor to The New Republic. Garry Trudeau, creator of the "Doonesbury" strip, called Mr. Osborn "one of the very few masters of illustrative cartooning." The present collection, drawn before his later fame, is quite accomplished, and shows the satirical wit which was his hallmark. Many of the cartoons are in series, such as "The Adventures of Tompkins Ickby" and "Pains and Counterpains"; others stand alone. One volume ("L'Amour"), a series of 32 drawings, has some of the leaves loose, and drawing 4 is not present, resulting in a series of only 31. Lot Amendments Condition: Some fading and minor rubbing to volume spines; except for the detached leaves noted above, in near fine to fine condition. Item number: 189216
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