BIB_ID
267001
Accession number
MA 11781.1-6
Creator
Smith, Claude.
Published
1957
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
6 drawings.
Notes
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Feb. 23, 1957.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Title supplied by cataloger.
145 x 188 mm (each)
Inscriptions/Markings
"59.8"--in pencil on top right verso of first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth sheets; "will call size of frame"--in pencil on top left verso of second sheet; "AD2059"--in blue colored pencil on center verso of sixth sheet.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Woman buys a lamp marked "Conversation Piece" in the window of an antiques store, she brings it home, and she and her husband proceed to quarrel over it.
Medium
Pen, brush and black ink, on paper.
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