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Original Oil on Canvas by Clyde Forsythe Signed lower left hand corner, depicting a desert scene som

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Original Oil on Canvas by Clyde Forsythe Signed lower left hand corner, depicting a desert scene som
Original Oil on Canvas by Clyde Forsythe Signed lower left hand corner, depicting a desert scene somewhere outside of Victorville. In gold frame, image size is 15"x11 1/2". Inscription on reverse: "To my old friend Dick Headrick with the affection ClSigned lower left hand corner, depicting a desert scene somewhere outside of Victorville. In gold frame, image size is 15"x11 1/2". Inscription on reverse: "To my old friend Dick Headrick with the affection Clyde Forsythe, 1945". Clyde (Vic)Forsythe entered the comic strip world prior to World War I. His most successful feature was the long-running Joe Jinks, which dealt successively with automobiles, aviation, and boxing. He drew a number of other strips, and for a time, shared astudio with Norman Rockwell. Victor Clyde Forsythe was born in Southern California in 1885. Writing, drawing, and sports were among his early interests, and he combined all three when he got a job doing sports cartooning and reporting for alocal paper. In the second decade of the century, he headed for New York City to work for The World. Among his earliest creations were a daily gag strip about boxing titled The Great White Dope and a Sunday Western titled Tenderfoot Tim.Briefly in 1916 and 1917, he did a daily called Flicker Films. This kidded the movies in week long continuities and was laid out in the two-tier formal later used by Ed Wheelan on Minute Movies. Joe's Car started in 1918. It was a daily humor