“Ding” J.N. Darling Industrial Whaling Wall Iowa New York Herald Tribune 1930 Editorial Original Political Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing

Description:
from the Prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection

Jay Norwood Darling (October 21, 1876 - February 12, 1962), better known as Ding Darling, was a Pulitzer Prize winning American cartoonist who lived and worked in Iowa and New York. He is best known for his illustrations but he was also a big part of the conservation movement and has a wildlife refuge named after him. This piece, topical even today, captioned “maybe we’re not so bad off after all” depicts The US standing beside his filled lunch basket, kerchief in hand, while the rest of the world including China, France, Japan, Russia, and Germany plead and cry in tattered clothes at the “Industrial Depression Wailing Wall.” This illustration is in great condition and is as relevant today as it was back then. Signed lower right J.N. Ding with Charles L. Howard Label bottom center matt. Penciled press inscription on reverse states it was run in The New York Herald Tribune 1930.

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

Approx. Dimensions or Size: 28.25x22 inches image site, 40x30 inches overall

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Estimated Weight of Package: 11 lbs.

Package size: 32 x 32 x 2

Cons./Inv. Code: The present lot is inventory number Clh 585 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: 150

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, highlighting, 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.