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JAMES THURBER Alan Porter and Julien Levy, Summer 1935 (with Talullah Bankhead for Ballast).
Pencil on tan wove paper, 1935. 216x280 mm; 8 1/2x11 inches. Signed in pencil, center left, and titled and annotated in pencil, lower margin.
Thurber (1894-1961) is best known as a humorist and artist for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 through the 1950s.
Tallulah Bankhead was the daughter of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives and the granddaughter of US Senators. A stage actress who originated 2 of the most substantial characters of the American stage, Regina Giddens in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes (1939) and Sabrina in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Your Teeth (1943), Talullah is best remembered as a witty radio personality with a volcanic presence. Julien Levy was the art dealer of the Surrealists, with galleries in both New York and Paris.
