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THBWILL B. JOHNSTONE ORIGINAL COMIC STRIP FEATURING GYPSY ROSE LEE
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LiveDec 5, 2014 - Dec 7, 2014
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A framed ink on paper comic strip titled "A Trainman's Last Strip" and signed by Will B. Johnstone and Helene Craven. The strip appeared in the New York World - Telegram as a response to the news item stated on the top of the strip: "Mob of 100 women, sympathizers with striking Louisiana & Arkansas railway workers, ambush train and strip clothes off of fireman." Gypsy Rose Lee is featured in this strip in addition to Johnstone's well-known barrel-wearing "tax payer" cartoon character. Johnstone was a cartoonist who also wrote for the Marx Brothers' Broadway shows and films.
LITERATURE Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957) pp. 298-300.
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Gypsy Rose Lee
18 1/4 by 15 1/4 inches, framed
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