Lot 5089: JOHNSON, DAVID ALEXANDER. B.1951. "She took a clean dish to get him some tripe," watercolor and ink,

"She took a clean dish to get him some tripe," watercolor and ink, 605 x 455 mm, signed, illustration for Sarah Catherine Martin, Old Mother Hubbard (New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1998, p 11).

David A. Johnson is perhaps best known for his elegant literary portraits in line for the New York Times Book Review. He has also contributed to Time, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Harvard Business Review and other periodicals and has illustrated numerous children's books.