RARE ORIGINAL VINTAGE DENYS WORTMAN PERSONALIZED COMIC CHRISTMAS ILLUSTRATION "PALACE HOTEL"

RARE ORIGINAL VINTAGE DENYS WORTMAN PERSONALIZED COMIC CHRISTMAS ILLUSTRATION. APPROX. 16"X12" THIN PAPER. PLEASE VIEW IMAGES OF ACTUAL ITEM WITH MAGNIFIER FOR CONDITION AND ASK QUESTIONS. PERSONAL "MERRY CHRISTMAS"GREETING ON BOTTOM FROM THE ARTIST TO HIS FRIENDS, THE HODGES FAMILY. GOOD CONDITION AS SHOWN WITH SOME FOXING. SHIPS FLAT, UNFRAMED ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN FOLDED AT ONE TIME. PLEASE VIEW IMAGES OF ACTUAL ITEM WITH MAGNIFIER FOR CONDITION AND ASK QUESTIONS.

"Christmas time was always a happy time in the Wortman family.  Dad always made a Christmas card that he sent to his friends.  These cards were no ordinary cards.  These were large, approximately 11" by 17"in size, and personalized  to each family.  He would send out about 250 cards each year and it was quite the production.  First Dad would draw the card and have it printed.  He would then put each person's name on the card and sometimes in two places.  Mom would address the labels and I would have the job of rolling the cards and putting them in their mailing tubes.  Many who received them would have them framed and to this day I sometimes find them still hanging on the walls of friends' houses.  Their sight always brings back such fond memories.  One of the joys of sending cards is receiving cards.  Dad had many friends who were artists and we would receive many cards from them.  Cards would arrive from Thomas Hart Benton, Walt Disney, Edward Hopper, Peter Arno, James Cagney and Reginald Marsh just to name a few." ~ Denys Wortman VIII

Denys Wortman (1887-1958)

Denys Wortman was a member of the National Academy and was a celebrated cartoonist and prolific easel painter. Denys Wortman was born in Saugerties, New York in 1887. Wortman studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, both of whom became noted social realists. He exhibited in the famous Armory Show of 1913, and in 1924, began work in New York City for “The World” newspaper, which later became “The World-Telegram and Sun.” He stayed in this job until his retirement in 1954. Wortman produced hundreds of drawing for a newspaper cartoon entitled “Metropolitan Movies”, which depicted episodes in the lives of an assortment of colorful characters, the most notable being “Mopey Dick and the Duke.” These characters were couple of lovable vagrants who commented on life in America from the Depression through World War II and into the early fifties. Wortman lived and worked from his home on Martha’s Vineyard from 1941 until his death in 1958. Many of his cartoon subjects were influenced by his wife, Hilda who would report back to Wortman the phrases and conversations that she overheard.

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