Denys Wortman (1887-1958) (artist)
Antique Shop Scene
for The World-Telegram
American: c. 1940s
Watercolor and ink on stiff card
Inscribed in pencil verso: "Wortman World-Telegram"
10.25 x 7.25 inches
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Antique Shop Scene
Original Illustration Art by Denys Wortman, c. 1940s
Original Illustration Art by Denys Wortman, c. 1940s
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Original art humorous cartoon by the prolific American cartoonist and painter Denys Wortman. A well-to-do couple visits an antique shop with an eccentric assortment of knick-knacks and asks, "If you will make it look like new and guarantee it to be old I'll take it."
Denys Wortman created this cartoon for The World-Telegram in New York, where he worked from 1924 to 1954, producing a strip called "Metropolitan Movies," which featured the characters Mopey Dick and the Duke, two good-natured vagrants. His cartoons were both humorous and compassionate. They commented on the political and social issues of the day, chronicling the Depression, World War II and the early post-war years. His cartoons also appeared in other publications, such as the New Yorker and Life magazines. Wortman studied under Ash Can School painter Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller and exhibited in the famous Armory Show in 1913. After 1941, he worked mostly out of his home in Martha's Vineyard. Wortman was the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York in 2010-2011 titled "Denys Wortman Rediscovered," and of the book Denys Wortman's New York: Portrait of the City in the 30s and 40s (2010).
Reference:
Wortman, Denys VIII. "About Denys Wortman." The Two Worlds of Denys Wortman: The Life and Works of Denys Wortman, Painter and Cartoonist. http://www.dwortman.com/about_denys.htm (5 August 2011).