Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
He stopped indecisively because a sixth figure had suddenly presented itself just inside the doorway--a figure so incongruous in the scene as to be almost comic
1913
14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (379 x 273 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
1986.1476
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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Caption title.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The man in the passage," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Sept., 1913.
Original drawing for an illustration for G.K. Chesterton's short story "The man in the passage," from The wisdom of Father Brown; as the story first appeared with Sullivan's illustrations in the Pall Mall magazine, Sept., 1913.
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Signed and dated at upper right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1913"; inscribed in ink at bottom, "The man in the passage. He stopped indecisively because a sixth figure had suddenly presented itself just inside the doorway--a figure so incongruous in the scene as to be almost comic."
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