Dan Smith: “Heroism of ‘The First American” Revealed by a Tell-Tale Arrow” hanging in The Inkwell Bar, c.1940s

These photos from the family that owned The Inkwell, a bar and restaurant in Manhattan in the 1940s, show the Dan Smith original for “Heroism of “The First American” Revealed by a Tell-Tale Arrow” hanging on the wall among all the other art that decorated the popular cartoonists’ hangout. The snapshots are from two articles in The Comics Journal:

The Inkwell: “Dan O’Connor’s Bar, Grill, and School of Higher Journalism and Car-toonacy” by Mark Newgarden, SEP 27, 2018,
http://www.tcj.com/the-inkwell-dan-oconnors-bar-grill-and-school-of-higher-journalism-and-car-toonacy/
and
The Inkwell, Continued: “All Ye Who Enter Herein Leave All Dopes Behind”
By Mark NewgardenOCT 01, 2018
http://www.tcj.com/the-inkwell-continued-all-ye-who-enter-herein-leave-all-dopes-behind/