So we found this treasure in a box of trash at the flea market that we like to show to friends who come over. But this thing is so unique and rare, Mel and I decided to shoot it and post this for all the Fecally Faced.
The following is the section of lost drawings we found as they appear
in the book...
This is one of two loose pages that have fallen out of the spine. The
digi-pics wash out how ancient and rare this book is to hold, so I
scanned this to give you a better idea of the paper quality...
The book has been closed for so long, the ink has transferred a
mirror image to the facing page on some of these.
The drawing reads, "Part of Chicago's EFFICIENT Police Dept."
Throughout this sketchbook, the man seems like he's drawing from his
daily existence in a comic sense, and through that you get an idea of
what life looked like for him, like the light pole, or the cop and
bobby stick.
This is obviously a self portrait of the man at his job. We know he
waited tables.
The next set of drawings seem like a short series based on this
character and his day.
The text reads "JONES GOES OUT FOR A SWIM."
This reads, "IT IS A HOT SUNNY DAY."
reads: "A GOOD SWIM."
reads, "OF COURSE A SUN BATH."
reads, "AND A CANOE RIDE."
reads, "HOMEWARD BOUND"
reads, "A PLEASANT DAY AT THE OFFICE"
Now, forgive me if i'm reaching, but it seems like that above drawing
and this one suggest he's doing some part-time commercial work too.
This drawing looks like a sketch for a Macy's ad maybe?
some nice bathing suit action...
This one is the most cryptic and inspiring drawings to me in the
book. It reads, "Some things i have seen...."
This is also one of the other loose drawings fallen from the spine.
We scanned it more closely too...
"I WORK IN A EATS HOUSE. A FEW SKETCHES---", maybe some
bored sketches on the job?
"A friend of mine who attends the school". ...so we
figure he was attending a Chicago school.
This page is confident evidence of time and place for this book. The
text reads,
"Aug.16 1913, PERRY CARNIVAL. Chicago. MISS BROADWICK LEAPS 2000 FEET"
"THE HYDROPLANES ATTRACTED ATTENTION"
Now here's where our theories get fuzzy, ...with only a few drawings
left, they all seem to become somewhat militaristic. Men in sailor
suits, ruminations on military generals, the onslaught of WW1, and
this reads, "THERE ARE LOTS OF SAILORS IN TOWN".
"THE NOBLE OFFICERS ARE HANDSOME YET STERN"
"THE 'NIAGRA' LOOKED SOMETHING LIKE THIS."
"THE FIRE BOAT"
"THE ARMY COOK AND THE REASON WHY HE DOES NOT NEED ANY
EXPERIENCE."
This is the last drawing from the sketches, save for a few very light
gestural pencil renderings.
The text starts in ink and fades to pencil reading, "THE ELEVATED
R.R. GUARD... ALL ABOARD FOR RAVENSWOOD. LET'EM OUT PLEASE! WATCH
YOUR STEP AN' MAKE UT JUST A LITTLE LIV'LY! WATCH YOUR STEP!"
and that's it. From there it pretty much goes blank to the end. So
where does this leave us?
Well, to give a little context to these drawings, ...in 1913, Robert
Johnson, of the Mississippi Delta Blues, was 4 years old. Windsor
McKaye's "Nemo in Slumberland" had run in the New York Herald from
1905 - 1910, (this being perhaps the 1st popular comic strip in the
United States). World War One officially began in 1914. Woodrow
Wilson was president. This is 7 years BEFORE the act of prohibition
was passed.
Pretty nuts huh? If you make it over to the cabin some night, we'll
drink beers over this.
And since this is a Fecal blog, how can we resist some drunk party
shots?
i mean, it can't all be a pretentious art history lesson right???
But, in keeping with the "history" aspect of this posting, i decided
to dig up some old flicks of a frat party me and some friends crashed
one night in Kansas, 1994. We posed as the "Party Pic Guys".
///////// Awesome! I like that last drawing as well.. They all show the style of the time... you don't see new drawings in this style! Kind of a lost art perhaps?
-n San Francisco Written by Niels on 2006-11-07 22:53:36
///////// amazing find! thanks for sharing. please keep it well, later generations need to see it. Written by caasi on 2006-11-07 23:09:26
///////// That is priceless. I like how he uses that "cloud" shape multiple times. that made my night. Really interesting. Written by D E L I ! on 2006-11-08 01:39:15
///////// Simply amazing and inspiring. Thanks so much for sharing this! Nemo in Slumberland is also something that came back to my kind in a violently way, thanks! Written by Tristan on 2006-11-08 05:20:37
///////// Hello- What a cool find. I often think about where my sketch books will end up in the future and what people will think of them. You might want to give the Chicago Historical Society a ring and let them know what you found. They may be able to clue you in on who it might be from. You could be holding a national treasure (not like the movie). http://www.chicagohs.org/aboutus/contactus
///////// wow. this is really cool. it's nice to see features like this, thanks Mel and Fudge. I enjoyed it. Written by lisa on 2006-11-08 07:48:09
///////// Score! Written by The Count on 2006-11-08 07:51:55
///////// nuts indeed! Written by M Scary on 2006-11-08 08:19:57
///////// That is incredible. Can't believe you found something like that. Nice to actually see something of that time. Written by M.silv on 2006-11-08 09:21:16
///////// This was a pleasure! I've got a book that I've found that I cherish also...Unfortunately mine did not include someones sketches but rather just one loose piece of paper with a poem on it - The letter in the book is from Christmas 1894 and the book is copyright 1886 - It is a book of poetry written by Robert Browning as far as I can tell - The pages have gold foil on the edges, and the cover seems to be embossed leather with gold foil and stuffed with cotton? I don't know but its a gem - I keep it in a plastic bag...
My Star.
"All that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue; Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue! Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled: They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it. What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it." Written by zeeg on 2006-11-08 09:41:28
///////// super cool. thanks for sharing! Written by aye jay on 2006-11-08 10:34:07
///////// best thing ever on fecal face Written by teddy on 2006-11-08 11:17:38
///////// Thanks for sharing. The drawings are excellent.
San Francisco Written by on 2006-11-08 12:35:40
///////// yeah this kicks ass. Written by ryan neal vancho on 2006-11-08 15:35:44
///////// there is a similarity between the jones character and the artist at the office....perhaps the artist was named jones....who knows im only guessing... Written by Jordan Hull on 2006-11-08 15:36:57
///////// I love how many people are smoking out of pipes Written by on 2006-11-08 16:56:26
///////// that looks soo familiar, but i cant place it Written by on 2006-11-08 17:02:43
///////// unbelievible, amazing, and inspiring Written by on 2006-11-08 18:36:21
///////// This sketchbook looks to me like the early work of Andy Hettinger. He reached his peak in l915, and died a year later. Eventually he did two strips for suburban Chicago papers. Amos Roach was the name of one of 'em. He died at age 17 or l8. He also made a couple of homemade animated cartoons in l915. Written by jay lynch on 2006-11-08 18:50:14
///////// wow thanks so much for that......some people find all the cool stuff and others like me just lose things. Written by on 2006-11-08 20:51:46
///////// haha and you've gotta love old photos Written by on 2006-11-08 20:54:42
///////// wow, that is about the neatest thing i have seen in a long time. style is also a lot like the original 'buck rogers' really neat thanks for sharing!
Written by love the 1900's! on 2006-11-09 11:15:19
///////// Hey thats mine!!!!!! Written by C. Montgomery Burns on 2006-11-09 13:34:43
///////// That is some of the best amateur hand-modeling I have seen done in years. Written by Nino on 2006-11-10 19:37:31
///////// diggin the soulpatch fudgy, here's to SRV! Written by a boy named ethos on 2006-11-12 02:58:26
///////// bring back the soulpatch fudgey ray vaughn! Written by a boy named ethos on 2006-11-12 03:02:22
///////// i hope you find out who drew those. nice dig man! Written by bgm on 2006-11-13 13:13:32
///////// So, did you scan the printed pages? I'd like to see those... Written by Verity on 2006-11-14 15:24:34
///////// reminds me of my free self-publishing stint of a few years ago. i would dumpster dive the art schools for semi-filled sketchbooks and journals, then begin to complete them with my own laundry lists, sketches and journal entries, then "forget" them in a cafe in Europe, especially byputting them right into the book shelf with the fairgame books. Sometimes my contact info was inside and I heard from people who were thrilled to have found someone's private journal. Written by mudfest on 2006-11-14 15:41:04
///////// the pool player is really cool. so simple yet it conveys so much. Written by howdy on 2006-11-14 16:02:27
///////// Quote:
This sketchbook looks to me like the early work of Andy Hettinger. He reached his peak in l915, and died a year later. Eventually he did two strips for suburban Chicago papers. Amos Roach was the name of one of 'em. He died at age 17 or l8. He also made a couple of homemade animated cartoons in l915. -- jay lynch on 2006-11-08 18:50:14
BINGO!
ANDY AT WORK. [1910] AFI/Hagenauer (George) Collection 35mm mas. pos. (675 ft.): b&w.
Silent Animated Films at the Library of Congress: Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and ... Guide_title : Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/animate.html
AMOS ROACH IN THE STOLEN DREAM. [1910] FEB 9037 AFI/Hagenauer (George) Collection 35mm ref. print: b&w. Prod./Animator: Harold "Andy" Hettinger.
Hettinger, Harold “Andy” animation work in Chicago, 1913-15 cs “Amos Roach” 1911-14 dec.
^^^^^^^^ L8r... Taro at http://news3Yen.com Written by Taro at news3Yen.com on 2006-11-14 16:59:58
///////// The style looks familiar on several of the more finished cartoons. Especially the drawing of the cop. I seem to recall seeing something like this recently on one of the Antique Roadshows (I think it was a Chicago newspaper cartoonist of the early 1900s). This may be the work of somebody fairly well known in the early Twentieth Century. It would be worth while to see if you could find the artist by consulting experts or searching throw newspaper archives or the web.
As for the book, it may be just a cheap book which was picked up and rebound as an artist's secret sketchbook. This was done fairly frequently. The title is a giveaway--a little joke by the artist himself perhaps.
My spidey senses are telling me that this is "lost work" by somebody who could be tracked down and not just an anonymous amateur scribbler. Note the drawing "a pleasant day at the office", which seems to show two artists at work. Written by on 2006-11-14 17:09:37
///////// I, for one, appreciated the Sonic Youth poster in one of the very bottom photos. Now that's real history for you! Written by David on 2006-11-14 17:37:24
///////// To be a witness of the reappearance of these pieces of art in this context and the vital responses seems like great a priviledge to me. I think that the creator would feel very honored of your reactions. Written by MS on 2006-11-14 17:52:25
///////// This was featured (with a link to fecalface) on boingboing.net today! Written by NOAH on 2006-11-14 17:57:28
///////// Hmm, John T. McCutcheon comes to mind, having seen a number of his drawing back at the libraries in college. He would have been in Chicago at the right time, it seems. He did the infamous 'Injun Summer" the Trib runs every fall: http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Chicago/InjunSummer/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._McCutcheon
Looks like the Newberry has some papers on him, too: http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/mccutcheon/McCutcheon.html
Worked a lot with George Ade, writer, and illustrated Ade's stories about 'everyman' for the paper.
Good luck, this is so interesting.
Written by /////// on 2006-11-14 20:53:41
///////// How much do youi ask for this? If I'm about to buy it (seriously!) Written by How much? on 2006-11-14 21:06:09
///////// edited to add that I meant The Chicago Tribune when I said 'The Trib" above.
I wanna know... is it John??? Please keep us posted. Written by gretchen on 2006-11-14 21:24:34
///////// Hmm it reminds me of the cartoonist george herriman Written by on 2006-11-14 23:48:44
///////// I used to make books like that. It is not a misprint it is a sample.
Publishers would produce the cover and the first few pages of a book to show to potential buyers (after all they would never have time to read every book they were considering stocking). Only when they got enough orders would they finish the job and produce the plates for the rest of the book to be printed. Written by Aidan on 2006-11-15 04:44:17
///////// Thanks for posting the pictures.
I found a page about Miss Broadwick - Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick 1893-1978 made her first parachure jump in 1913: http://www.earlyaviators.com/ebroadwi.htm
And wikipedia has some information and links about the Niagara ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Brig_Niagara_(replica) Written by Paola on 2006-11-15 05:06:39
///////// They look a lot like a postcard I bought and lost - Keystone cops beating up on a guy in a boater hat with the punchline "I had an attack of the blues today". Written by Mark on 2006-11-15 09:02:55
///////// It's not John McCutcheon. He wouldn't have been working as a waiter in 1913, when he would have been middle-aged, according to that birthdate on Wikipedia. At some point he married into the wealthy Shaw family, whose estate is now Ragdale (an artist's colony in Lake Forest). They have some framed cartoons of his there from the 1920s and they very much reflect a codgery well-to-do guy's point of view. Whoever this guy is, he had to have been young and hungry. Awesome find. Written by Wendy on 2006-11-15 09:56:11
///////// Here's some background on the Niagara drawing. It was apparently Commodore Perry's flagship in the War of 1812, and may still be on display in Erie, PA.
///////// To depend my McCutcheon supposition, the art he did for George Ade's column would have been more about the everyman. I imagine him at lunch, drawing from a waiter's perspective as opposed to being the waiter. But that's just me, wishing to be Nancy Drew solving The Cartoonist Mystery. Written by gretchen Hoffman on 2006-11-15 14:55:17
///////// kind of looks like George Harriman to me? Could be totally off though! Written by brandon on 2006-11-15 16:26:34
///////// Very interesting. I can't help you figure out who did the drawings, but I can tell you about the book. You have (as Aidan suggested) what appears to be a "salesman's dummy." Publishers bound up sample copies of books, before printing was complete (hence the blank pages), and gave them to travelling salesmen to show to bookstore owners and sometime to take door-to-door to sell directly the the public.
"The Conspiracy" was filmed in 1914 and turned into a pulp novel after WWI. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=201163792
One of the authors, John Emerson, co-wrote the play "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," with his wife, Anita Loos.
Scott Brown http://www.blog.myfinebooks.com Written by Scott Brown on 2006-11-15 20:15:10
///////// Love the sketch book.And appreciate it being shared for us to see,thanks. Written by Mona on 2006-11-16 10:07:36
///////// thanks for taking the time to scan in the artwork. I've enjoyed looking at it. Written by Kristine on 2006-11-16 13:44:18
///////// What a great find!
The style of the artist, doing so much with a few lines, such personality the figures have.
What a treasure. Thank you so much for sharing it with us all. Written by Chris Tucker on 2006-11-16 16:58:31
///////// Mel & Travis....great piece of nostalgia from a collector of old comic greating cards. I know this artist. I'll forward the name to you soon. Love, O'Padre. P.S. tell me that isn't Travis with the soul patch Written by on 2006-11-16 17:24:39
///////// to be MY legacy one day. an undiscovered and nameless artist Written by air zonk on 2006-12-04 14:18:28
///////// looks familliar Written by on 2006-12-23 09:03:55
///////// stupid!!!!!!!! Written by meat on 2007-01-25 08:38:40
///////// Thanks for doing such a great job of posting this.
Nice that you mention Winsor McCay, but you spelled his name wrong.
These sketches are a pleasure to see; I wish there were more. Not a "pretentious art history lesson" at all. Written by Nora Cat on 2007-12-21 13:42:57
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