Description
Four original pen-and-ink and watercolor cartoon illustrations make up a complete gag sequence titled “Junior’s First Taxi,” following a young boy sent off alone in a yellow cab, bearing the name Stan Fine. Signature/marking present as shown; attribution not verified. Inquire for details. Each sheet is hand-drawn in a loose, mid-century magazine cartoon style with black ink linework, gray wash shading, and yellow watercolor highlighting the taxi throughout the story. Hand-lettered captions in red ink run beneath each scene, carrying the gag’s dialogue from the mother’s nervous instructions to the cabbie’s exasperated sign-off.
The first sheet carries a printed stamp reading “Stan Fine, 1128 E. Vernon Rd., Phila., 19, PA,” and a signature reading “Stan Fine” appears directly in the artwork on the final sheet, consistent with original cartoon art prepared for magazine submission. Each page is numbered in red pencil in the lower corner (1, 7, 9, 10), indicating these four sheets were part of a longer sequential run. The work is executed on heavy illustration paper, unframed, with visible pinholes along the top edge of two sheets from prior mounting.
All four sheets show typical paper toning and age-related mellowing consistent with mid-century studio artwork. Edges show light wear and small chipping, one sheet has a faint spot/stain near the lower left corner, and pinholes are present at the top of two pages from earlier display or filing. The drawn and painted imagery itself remains bright and fully intact with no losses to the ink or watercolor.
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