CLASSIC NEWYORK INTHETWENTIES
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IVAN OPFFER.
“Edgar Lee Masters and H.L. Mencken at Brown’s Chop
House, NY Back in ’20.” Charcoal on paper. 298x483 mm; 11
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4
x19 inches. Signed and
dated “’41” lower right; Inscribed and Signed to Kimball Flaccus “with best of best and a
‘hell of a time with the three (Masses) girls’ - Ivan.” Lower left and upper right corners
chipped, toned, with lighter border showing, two cellotape repairs on verso. 1941.
[400/600]
While at City College, Flaccus established the Phonographic Library of Contemporary Poets,
recording the voices of such famous poets as Edgar Lee Masters, Genevieve Taggard, Arthur
Davison Ficke, and John HallWheelock reading their own poems. For many years, Flaccus was
engaged in writing a biography of Edgar Lee Masters, and had accumulated massive files of
research on Masters’ life. This image shows the boozing, cigar-smoking lions of New York at
their favorite steakhouse.The “Masses” girls he refers to were employees of the socialist maga-
zine with which he was affiliated.
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RICK PARKER.
“Beavis and Butt-Head ShowYou Step-By-Step How to Have
a Ball at the Beach!” 6-panel pen and ink on Marvel Comics grid Comic paper. Activity
Page published in MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head Comic Book, 8 June 1994 issue. 279x432
mm; 11x17 inches. Signed in full lower right, titled and dated left margin, additionally
Signed and dated on verso.
[400/600]
From 1994 to 1996, Marvel Comics published a monthly Beavis and Butt-Head comic under
the “Marvel Absurd” imprint by a variety of writers, but with each issue drawn by Parker.The
comic books were based on the wildly successful Beavis and Butt-Head animated cartoon cre-
ated by Mike Judge for MTV which ran between 1993 and 1997.
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