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Little Allright, Hand-Colored Sunday (1907) -- Wallace Goldsmith

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Title:	Little Allright, Hand-Colored Sunday (1907) -- Wallace Goldsmith
Artist:	Wallace Goldsmith (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Watercolor
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,688
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	4/17/2009
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Description

Just a beautiful hand-colored Sunday from the first decade of colored comic-strip art. Little Allright was publisehd by the Boston Herald. It started in 1904, stopped, and then restarted for a short time in 1907. The artist, Wallace Goldsmith, was a children's illustration artist, best known for his illustrations for Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost." Although it was one of many strips at the time about young kids, at a time when everyone was trying to emulate the success of the Yellow Kid, and not the most popular (apparently, the main character's big line was saying "allright" a lot), it is still amazing art, and very early. It is nearly impossible to find originals of these early strips, particularly hand-coloered by the artist! Thanks to Robert Dennis for light restoration work and cleaning.

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Stephen Stein
Member Since 2004

Posted on 4/18/2009

Great Little Allright Sunday Ben! Goldsmith has a similar look to early McCay and Richard Outcault. Congrats!!

Johnny C.
Member Since 2010

Posted on 12/16/2015

Just an incredible piece of comic art!

Bernard Voorzichtig
Member Since 2012

Posted on 9/17/2016

Beautiful oldy ! Also thanks for the information. (Recently, I found my own Sunday)

George Hagenauer
Member Since 2005

Posted on 3/24/2018

really nice and fro ma strip I am not familair with

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