DOW WALLING (1902 1987) The Matter of Remembering Strokes Ma

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DOW WALLING (1902-1987)
"The Matter of Remembering Strokes Made Easy - The Divot System." Cartoon published July 22, 1931. Ink, graphite, and blue crayon on paper. 310x283 mm; 12 1/4x11 1/4 inches. Signed "Dow Walling" in lower right corner. Central Press Association, Great Britain label in lower image, dated "7-22" in pen. Float-mounted in double-sided frame with verso showing a separate 9 1/2x7 1/2-inch sheet with racy graphite cartoon sketches of male characters gazing at a lady in a see-through negligee captioned "A `Dig' at Mindy."

Provenance: PBA February 27, 2014, lot 41; thence to Dick McDonough.

Dow Walling was a self-taught comic artist born and raised on a farm outside of Bellingham, Washington. His childhood upbringing is reflected in the adventures of the spunky young protagonist in his popular comic strip 'Skeets,' which ran in the Sunday New York Herald Tribune and was nationally syndicated from 1932 until 1951. Walling also created a short-lived series for Johnson Features syndicate called 'Campus Cowboys,' before selling his cartoons to Life, Judge, and College Humor. He began working on numerous existing cartoons with King Features syndicate in 1931 before he was approached by the Tribune to create 'Skeets.'

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