Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

265 c JAMES DAUGHERTY. The Pelican Dance. Together, two studies for proposed covers for The New Yorker, circa 1926. Watercolor and gouache over charcoal on paper, one with collaged elements. Both approximately 292x229 mm; 11 1 / 2 x9 inches. Both signed “Jimmie the Ink” in lower right image. Individually matted and framed. [700/1,000] 266 c RICHARD DECKER. “I bet the Book-of-the-Month Club often wonders what’s become of me.” Cartoon for The New Yorker, with their stamps and notations on verso, published February 8, 1941. Ink and wash on thick paper, heightened in white. 260x292 mm; 10 1 / 4 x11 1 / 2 inches, on 14x16 1 / 2 -inch sheet. Signed in far right image. Hinged to matte and framed. [500/750] 265 266