Who Is the Old Boy Everyone Is Making Such a Fuss over? Methuselah, Our Oldest Living Graduate
Datenot dated
Artist
Thomas Starling Sullivant
(American illustrator, 1854–1926)
Illustration CitationInscription indicates that the drawing was created for Life magazine. Date and place of publication not identified
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 9 1/8 × 16 1/4 in. (23.2 × 41.3 cm)
sheet: 14 × 20 5/8 in. (35.6 × 52.4 cm)
sheet: 14 × 20 5/8 in. (35.6 × 52.4 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1993
Object number1993-104
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextBorn in Ohio,Thomas Sullivant was raised in Germany, and then studied art in Europe, returning to Philadelphia, where in 1885, 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.
Thomas Starling Sullivant
1910
