"Can I get you anything? I'm going into town today." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266340
Accession number: 
MA 12507
Author: 
Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001.
Published: 
1977.
Credit: 
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 a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Aug. 29, 1977.

Summary: 

Woman speaks to her husband as he waters a huge number of potted plants on the terrace roof of their high-rise apartment building.

Medium: 
Black porous pointed pen, brush and black ink, compressed charcoal pencil with graphite inscription, on paper.
Dimensions: 
386 x 500 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: