Gaar Williams Prominent Indiana Cartoonist Chicago Tribune titled “The Family Reunion” Down Home Picnic Signed Recto Circa 1920 Large Folio 30 Figures Sleeping Picnicking Playing in Victorian Days Original Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Description: Gaar Williams Prominent Indiana Cartoonist Chicago Tribune “The Family Reunion” Down Home Picnic Signed Recto Circa 1920 Large Folio 30 Figures Sleeping Picnicking Playing in Victorian Days Original Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing from the Prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection.

Williams has been called the James Whitcomb Riley of the pencil and is known as the Hoosier Cartoonist. Very Scarce!
Titled, “The Family Reunion”, signed lower right, Gaar Williams with penciled title top center and reverse along with press notations and stamp:

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

Approx. Dimensions or Size: 14 by 18 inch image site, 17.75 by 21 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 554 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: 500 700 Starting Bid: 75

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.