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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Darkie's Old Motor
1923
Pen and ink on tracing paper.
9 11/16 x 15 1/16 inches (246 x 383 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1609
Notes:
Title from item; finished drawing on illustration of this subject has caption reading: Master Hatch, "Darkie" and his "Old Motor" (see 1986.1608).
Original preliminary drawing by E.J. Sullivan on tracing paper for an illustration for an unidentified publication.
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan, 1923; captioned in ink, "Master Hatch, 'Darkie' and his 'Old Motor'".
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing shows an old man with a beard, sharpening a knife on a treadle driven grindstone; the grindstone has a sign reading, in reversed letters, Darkie's Old Motor.
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