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Portrait of Toots Shor : illustration for the New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
266272
Accession number
MA 12479
Creator
Auerbach-Levy, William, 1889-1964.
Published
1950.
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
Original drawing for an illustration published in The New Yorker, Nov. 18, 1950.
Published to accompany a Profiles piece entitled "Toot's World: II - Friendship".
454 x 332 mm
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Portrait of the head of Bernard "Toots" Shor, restaurant and saloon owner.
Medium
Brush and black and blue ink with correction fluid on paper.
Classification