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Lot 285
Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(CRIME) MCCUTCHEON, JOHN TINNEY
A group of six original pen and ink illustrations for The Chicago Tribune on the theme of crime; circa 1926-1931. Largest dimensions being 53 x 36 cm., with minor variation between items; each of them signed.Titled cartoons include: "The stockholder meeting" (copyright 1926), "The Commission will do a good job if they can pry this pair apart" (1926), "To be or not to be? That is the question" (1931), and "How to sober-up drunken joyriders." Together with a color page from the Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 27, 1917, on which McCutcheon's WWI cartoon "The colors" was reprinted.






