Jay Graham Hunter 1931 Cats on the Piano Large Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Description: Jay Graham Hunter 1931 Cats on the Piano Large Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing from the Prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection.
With caption, “Sure It’s my wife: I’d know her touch anywhere!
Signed lower left, Graham Hunter with caption title applied bottom center, with artists stamp and penciled inscription verso: Very Popular Illustrator.

Graham Hunter created the comic strip Jolly Jingles (1925-1926). A well listed illustrator and cartoonist from Vineland, New Jersey near Philadelphia, he created art for advertisements and major magazines throughout the U. S. and Canada.
In the 1940s and fifties, he specialized in humorous drawings for commercial advertisers, including a series of magazine ads for Pepsi Cola.

Winning bidder will receive a Certificate of Authenticity with the drawing.

Approx. Dimensions or Size: 9 by 11.50 inches overall

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Estimated Weight of Package: 7 lbs.

Package size: 26 x 26 x 2

Cons./Inv. Code: The present lot is inventory number 553 in the Charles L. Howard Collection, one of two hundred lots that will be continuously added to this online catalogue on a daily basis between today and the day of sale. The first 100 to 125 lots will be Important Original Illustration Art and the second 100 to 125 lots are comprised of Original Railroad Art. Please check our listings regularly during the coming days for many exciting discoveries.
Low & High Ests: 300 400 Starting Bid: 50

The state of preservation of these original illustration drawings that are on average over 65 years old is quite exceptional. Very, very few have any creases, tears or losses to the paper and the ink has remained uniformly vivid thanks to the family’s dry flat storage. Given that these were working drawings from which prints were made the expected edge annotations, highlightings, inscriptions, pasted labels, tack holes, staples, glue residues and scattered corrections can be found variously on the examples as illustrated in the photographs. These all add to the authenticity and immediacy of the Wartime newsroom and pressroom atmosphere, serving to reinforce the iconic status of these rare surviving testimonies to the political illustrator’s art. In a few examples additional notations have been made in the description section of the catalogue text for significant damage, however the condition sensitive collector is encouraged to contact our sale expert for additional lot details in advance of the auction date.