I Say, Walrus, Why Don't You Have Those Unsightly Tusks of Yours Removed?

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I Say, Walrus, Why Don't You Have Those Unsightly Tusks of Yours Removed?
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I Say, Walrus, Why Don't You Have Those Unsightly Tusks of Yours Removed?

Date1910
Illustration CitationLife, September 22, 1910
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 22 × 16 3/16 in. (55.9 × 41.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-212
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Label TextBorn in Ohio, Thomas Sullivant was raised in Germany, and then studied art in Europe. He returned to America, moving to Philadelphia in 1885. There he studied under Thomas Eakins at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1886, his first cartoons appeared in the minor humor magazine Truth. By the next year, his work could be seen in Puck and Harper's Weekly. Soon after, Life published his "Aesop to Date" series and other cartoons. By 1900, Sullivant was working mainly for Judge, though his work also appeared in the Hearst newspapers and in Life.
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