“Well, Didn’t You Get Nothing?” 1920
by Robert Lynn (RL) Lambdin (1886-1981)
12.5 x 14 in, crayon on textured board
Coppola Collection

In “The Frame-Up” by Harry Kemp
(Munsey’s Magazine, vol LXXI(3), 1920, p 440, 2-page illustration pp 442-443)

Lambdin, a Kansas native, studied for a year at the Denver (CO) School of Art with Henry Read and at the Kansas City Art institute with Charles A. Wilimovsky. He began in the art department of the Rocky Mountain News. After working for the Denver Republican, moved to the Kansas City Star as illustrator of feature stories. He settled in New York City in 1917 as a freelance illustrator for magazines and juvenile books. Much of Lambdin’s early work was done in pen and ink but as line drawing went out of style, he worked in watercolor washes and oils. He painted a number of public murals in the 1930s as a WPA artist.