With Timely Wit
Two archaeologists enter a cave to discover splendidly painted beasts on walls that curiously spiral upward. Charles Addams’s cartoon of a cavern brings to mind the interior of the Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) that had opened in October 1959, less than a year before publication of the cartoon. This drawing demonstrates Addams’s special gift for connecting disparate visual ideas. Best known for creating the popular, macabre Addams Family cartoon characters in 1946, Addams produced more than 1,300 cartoons published mainly in the New Yorker during his life.
Two archaeologists enter a cave to discover splendidly painted beasts on walls that curiously spiral upward. Charles Addams’s cartoon of a cavern brings to mind the interior of the Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) that had opened in October 1959, less than a year before publication of the cartoon. This drawing demonstrates Addams’s special gift for connecting disparate visual ideas. Best known for creating the popular, macabre Addams Family cartoon characters in 1946, Addams produced more than 1,300 cartoons published mainly in the <em>New Yorker</em> during his life.