Description: Original magazine cartoon by artist Gregory d'Alessio. A man cries in grief at the offices of Flack & Slack, Stock Brokers, with the caption, "Poor Hegeman - wiped out by a nasty peace rumor." People in the 30s and 40s were angry about war profiteering, now we hardly pay any attention to it. The original publication of this cartoon is uncertain, but d'Alessio had work in many of the major slick magazines of the 30s and 40s. Other cartoons in the group when I acquired this one appeared in Esquire. There is a faint stamp in the lower right which says "APPROVED Jan 3 1940 Harry Hirschman". I have been unable to determine at which magazine Hirschman may have been a cartoon editor. A stamp on the back indicates it was received Jan 18, 1940 and paid Jan 25, 1940. The image and text area is eight and a quarter inches wide and seven inches tall. The full art board measures twelve and three quaters inches tall and and eleven inches wide. There is some discoloration of the paper in the margin, and a few pinholes, none of which affect the art area.. ******Gregory D'Alessio (1904-1993) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and painter. Born in New York City in 1904, D'Alessio worked as a bank clerk, Wall Street runner, and cub reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle . After the stock market crash, he began selling his drawings to popular illustrated magazines of the time, including the New Yorker, Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post . For more than twenty years (1940-1963) he drew the strip These Women for Publishers Syndicate. In 1961 he turned from cartooning to serious painting, and taught drawing, composition and anatomy at the Art Students League of New York.
Price: 125 USD
Location: Cedar City, Utah
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Type: Comic Strip Art
Year of Production: 1940
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Illustrator: Gregory D'Alessio
