ORIGINAL 1927 CLARE BRIGGS COMIC STRIP ART DRAWING THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT SIGNED

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ORIGINAL 1927 CLARE BRIGGS COMIC STRIP ART DRAWING THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT SIGNED:
$199.99

You are offerding on the pictured Clare Briggs Original Comic Strip Drawing from his The Days of Real Sport comic strip titled \"The Auto\" and dated Jan. 10, 1927. The drawing is framed and matted and is in good looking condition with a couple crease lines in the paper, see photos. There is a stain on the lower left corner of the matting, it does not appear to have stained the drawing. The drawing itself measures 11 3/4\" x 14 1/4\". Framed along with the original drawing is the original hand signed letter of provenance from the artist which was sent along with the drawing to the original owner, a gentleman named Mr. Whitten. It appears that Mr. Whitten provided Clare Briggs some literature concerning Abraham Lincoln and had asked Mr. Briggs for a piece of his original artwork and this is the piece the artist sent him. The letter of provenance is on New York Herald Tribune letterhead and is dated Jan. 27, 1927 and Hand Signed by Clare Briggs. The letter is in very good overall condition. The vintage wood frame measures 15 1/2\" x 26 1/2\" and is in good condition with some typical wear to the paper on the back. This is one of Clare Briggs later pieces of art as he passed away less than 3 years later in 1930. I will Guarantee For Life that this is an Original Clare Briggs Drawing. Please use the pictures to determine it\'s exact condition including any wear. I have not removed it from the frame. Will be shipped well packed via USPS Priority Mail with delivery confirmation for FREE. Cleared payment via Paypal due within 5 days of sale ending. Please check my response and email me any questions.

Born on Aug. 5th 1875 in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, Clare Briggs lived there until the age of nine. In 1884, his family moved to Dixon, Illinois, where he started his newspaper career at age ten, delivering the local paper to subscribers for 40 cents a week while wearing a red, white and blue cap with the name of the newspaper.

Briggs had three brothers, who grew up to all have creative careers, one as a musician, one as a writer, and the third in advertising. After five years in Dixon, Briggs was 14 when his family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he lived until 1896 when he was 21. Life in the Midwest gave Briggs the source material for the small town Americana that he later depicted in his cartoons.[

While attending the University of Nebraska for two years, he studied drawing and stenography. Employment as a stenographer brought him six dollars a week when the work was available. One of his art instructors was an editor with Western Penman, where his first published drawings appeared. His mathematics teacher was Lieutenant John J. Pershing. \"If ever a fellow needed a friend, I did in mathematics,\" said Briggs. \"It happened that Lieutenant Pershing was my instructor, and I believe he will testify that it was easier to conquer Germany than to teach me math. One day he ordered me to the blackboard to demonstrate a theorem, and while I was giving the problem a hard but losing battle, he remarked: \'Briggs, sit down, you don\'t know anything.\' Right then and there, I decided to become a newspaper man.\"[1]

On July 18, 1900, he married Ruth Owen of Lincoln. He began his career as a newspaper sketch artist in St. Louis, Missouri with William Randolph Hearst\'s Globe-Democrat, which sent him off to cover the Spanish American War as an editorial cartoonist. Relocating in New York, his drawings for the New York Journal prompted Hearst to send Briggs to the Chicago Herald and the Chicago\'s American, where he created A. Piker Clerk, often described as the first daily continuity comic strip. After 17 years in Chicago, Briggs returned to New York to spend the remaining 13 years of his life with the New York Tribune. He lived in to the suburban community of New Rochelle, a well-known art colony and home to a majority of the top commercial illustrators of the day.[4] During the 1920s, the New Rochelle Art Association commissioned its best known artists to create a series of signs on major roadways to mark the borders, including \"New Rochelle The Place To Come When a Feller Needs a Friend\", which was created by Briggs representing one of his major comics, \"When a Feller Needs a Friend\".
Clare and Ruth Owen Briggs were together for 29 years and had three children.[5] They divorced in February 1929. Briggs died ten months later, leaving his estate of $90,067 to Ruth Briggs. However, the will was challenged by his second wife, Marie C. Briggs, aka Maggie Touhey.