Jul 16, 2020 - Sale 2541

Sale 2541 - Lot 249

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SHANNON WHEELER.
"How's your book coming along?" Cartoon for The New Yorker, published in caption contest June 18, 2012, with caption finalists July 2, and with winning caption July 23, with their inventory label on verso. Pen, ink, and watercolor on paper. 160x250 mm; 6 1/4x9 3/4 inches, on 9x12-inch sheet. Signed on verso, captioned in lower margin.

Provenance: Cartoon Collections.

Published winning caption: "I'm surprised you can ghostwrite for him. I've only heard him say, 'Fee fi fo fum.'" Caption on original artwork was not published.