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Bob Edgren’s Little Biographical Sketch

    1897 [1] Bob Edgren, pictured working with Hearst reporter W.W. Naughton and boxer Jimmy Corbett, unsigned art after a photograph by F.H. Bushnell. 3 March. by John Adcock Edgren weighs about 225 pounds, is six feet tall, does not know what a tremor or a funk is, and has as good an appetite for a scrap as he has for his dinner. During all of the acrimonious anti-cartoon debate in

The Ally Sloper Mask

Publisher, art teacher, and Ally Sloper collector Bill Leach has been collecting Ally Sloper original art since the 1980s. His latest acquisition is a Victorian era papier-mâché Ally Sloper mask created in a factory using a mask mold. The mask has no manufacturer’s name or labeling. The mask is a bit damaged, says Bill, but he intends to repair and repaint the piece. “Some might say to

The Art of Rube Goldberg Exhibit in San Francisco

The Art of Rube Goldberg  is currently on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum,  San Francisco, California, through July 8, 2018. Y