BIB_ID
266026
Accession number
MA 11562
Creator
Chast, Roz.
Published
1989.
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
First panel text: "How great-grandpa Louie came to America with $12.00 in his pocket and eventually owned a baking soda factory" -- second panel text: "The story of grandma Iris's terrible ear infection back in the days before there was such a thing as penicilin" -- third panel text: "Aunt Tessie's date with Errol Flynn's second cousin" -- fourth panel text: "The time the Ferris wheel got stuck for an hour and aunt Pearl and uncle Barney were in the top car ('Aaaaaaagh!!!' speech bubble in image)" -- fifth panel text: "Cousin Gladys's psychic dream that showed the exact location of her friend Doris Benson's lost pair of pinking shears" -- sixth panel text: "How the Connors branch of the family found itself in Hoboken, New Jersey".
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Sept. 18, 1989.
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Sept. 18, 1989.
305 x 229 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"November 21, 1989" -- in ink on verso with artist's signature; copyright 1988 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AH 3605. Editorial notes in pencil on verso detailing capitalization corrections.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Unimpressive family stories illustrated and described in text.
Medium
Pen, brush and ink with overlaid corrections and correction fluid, on paper.
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