Wish You Were Here, from Walter Wellman

I don’t really get the gag here — I guess the dapper fellow tripped on that giant basket somehow?!?!? — but I’d bet a bushel of $100 bills that this unsigned postcard is from the usually very fun mind of Walter Wellman. The divided-back says Series #218, but lists no maker.

2 comments on “Wish You Were Here, from Walter Wellman

  1. The caption is a familiar warning against excess modesty.

    I'm guessing the man is drunk, and almost hiding his "light" — a nose with some lines indicating radiance — under a bushel basket. The artist's problem is that the basket has to defy gravity a bit so we can see his nose.

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