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FONTAINE FOX. Two cartoons. 'The Smiths and the Jones don't play bridge together any more.' * 'The morning the Chauffeur couldn't start the car and Dad had to get Willie to rush him to the depot in his racing flivver.' Pen and ink cartoons for The Woman's Home Companion. Various sizes, Signed 'F. Fox" Provenance: ex-collection F. Hayden Carruth.
Remembered today almost solely for the Toonerville Trolley, Fontaine Fox also contributed a monthly cartoon to the back page of The Woman's Home Companion, "The Postscript," conducted by the magazine's literary editor F. Hayden Carruth, grandfather of the eminent 20th century poet Hayden Carruth.
