Lot #6: Surreal Glenn Gould At Piano Keyboard Framed Pen & Ink Artist Signed Franklin Edward 25"

Excellent sound clean intact 25.25" x 21.25" Born April 21, 1921 in Hireno Texas U.S.A. Died 2006. He served as top turret gunner in a B-17 bomber during World War Two. In 1947, he began working in the art department of the Press [Houston] doing occasional editorial cartoons. Several years later he moved over to the Post [Houston]. In 1953 Franklin and his wife moved to New York City where he studied illustration for a year at the Pratt Institute. By the mid 1950’s he was illustrating for such magazines as The Saturday Evening Post, Argosy and True. In 1959, when he was 38 years old he moved his family to Toronto, thinking it would be a good place to raise his children. He did commercial and illustration work. On a whim he contacted James Reidford, editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail, who suggested he try cartooning. He freelanced submitting his work to the Globe and Mail. He worked for the Star [Toronto] for a while filling in for Duncan Macpherson. In 1968 he moved back to the Globe and Mail, alternating with Reidford on the editorial page. He became a daily cartoonist in 1972, when Reidford retired. In 1985 he won a National Newspaper Award. After he retired in 1987, he did freelance work for Saturday Night magazine and the Financial Post. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/franklin-edward-livingston https://canadianaci.ca/Encyclopedia/2164/ Dimensions: 25.25" x 21.25" Pickup category timeslot {A}