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THBVirgil Partch Ink Illustration Drawing
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LiveApr 21, 2026
Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to present our Spring Art + Design auction. The auction features paintings by important Indiana artists Will Henry Stevens, Eugene Savage, and Bruce McKain as well as works by Charles Cajori, Gaston Lachaise, and Tod Lindenmuth. Design objects include rare F.A. Porsche Artemide pendant lights & a Martz table. The auction also includes Asian ceramics, carvings, art glass, etc. Sheafer + King Modern auctions@sheaferking.com
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Ink illustration drawing by Virgil Partch (American; 1916-1984). Signed lower right.
Measurements: 11.25" W x 9.75" H (board); 9.75" W x 8.5" H (sheet).
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From AskArt:
He was born on St. Paul Island, in the Aleutians, twenty-eight years ago. Chief Petty Officer Virgil Franklin Partch I, who bears the paternal share of grief for having a cartoonist in the family, was stationed there. Traveling was part of the Navy life, so the family Partch made it’s oceanic way through the Bering Sea to Kodiak, Sitka, Puget Sound, San Francisco, and, as if in complete contrast, to the dry confines of Tucson, Ariz., Private Partch attended the University of Arizona for a year and then enrolled at the Chouinard School of Art, Los Angeles. Prior to being shuffled back and forth by his draft board, he lived in North Hollywood. After a year of exposure to fine art at Chouinard, he went to Walt Disney’s Pre-Animation School which prepares the artist for employment at the Disney Studios. Private Partch spent part of four years animating Disney characters and the balance of the time in sharing in the Disney employee tradition of drawing highly censorable bits of humor which were slipped under the pad or the door of the artist in the next office. This, all in the best Hollywood tradition. After a disagreement with Disney, he tried the fine art of living on $18 per month, which his unemployment insurance paid him, at the same time trying his hand at free-lance cartooning. Rejection slips piled high in the Partch household until Collier’s in their historic (historic to Private Partch) issue of February 12th, 1942, first let their readers in on one of the zaniest creations. As Kyle Critchon writes in his foreword of Private Partch’s book, ‘It’s Hot in Here’…. it was received with agonized cries by various people who were obviously on the verge of a breakdown and needed only a touch of Partch to close the deal. The book, incidentally, is a collection of cartoons that have appeared in Collier’s. Early in his cartooning days, Private Partch, with a slight but not unusual bit of artistic liberty changed the F of Franklin in his middle name to I and started his rib-tickling monstrosities with the contraction VIP. These initials have appeared over illustrations for more than three years now, many of them concerning life in the Army.
Condition
Drawing stapled to board. Discoloration to paper. Stray marks upper center.
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