Jan 28, 2021 - Sale 2556
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Sale 2556 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 1,235
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HARRISON CADY (1877-1970)
"Nature Stories." Group of 7 illustrations. Published within the famous daily story series Burgess Bedtime Stories by Thornton W. Burgess, August 1951. Pen and ink with graphite on paper. Average size 178x150 mm; 7x6 inches. Signed, dated, and captioned lower margins. Each tipped to window matte.

This group comprises 7 illustrations for the stories Burgess published between August 11th and September 5th 1951 that followed the adventures of Little Stripes the Chipmunk. Cady illustrated Thornton Burgess's newspaper bedtime stories from 1913 to 1960. It is Cady, even more than Burgess, perhaps, who was responsible for the popularity of the story characters.
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