Cartoonist in a Macabre Setting. A black metal spider on the wall and a high-backed chair whose top curls over the head of the sitter and creates an echo in conversation furnish the setting here for Charles Samuel Addams in his Westhampton, L.I.,home. For the 41-year-old cartoonist, A Long-time artist on the staff of The New Yorker Magazine, The Macabre and The Ghoulish find as much expression in the Things he collects as they do in the characters he sets down on his drawing board.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. September 1953]

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