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George Herriman, WILL CONNELL PORTRAIT - Original Illustration
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WILL CONNELL PORTRAIT

Original Illustration
1931
Ink
35.5 x 43 cm (13.98 x 16.93 in.)
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Description

This is a lyrical specialty portrait illustration by George Herriman featuring his friend Will Konnell.
A great amalgam of humor, poetry, line, tone, and color, with its hallmark Southwestern landscape and expressive Herriman linework.

Inscriptions

Bottom right: "To Will Connell -- "super-snap and square-shooter" who did a nice kindness ages & ages ago for one low down Herriman."

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About George Herriman

George Joseph Herriman was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience among those in the arts.