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Man examines clown outfit with disdain : illustration for Jean Kerr's "Penny Candy" [drawing].

BIB_ID
267122
Accession number
MA 12195
Creator
Darrow, Whitney, 1909-1999.
Published
1970.
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, 2006.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Drawing reproduced as an illustration for Jean Kerr's "Penny Candy" (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York 1970).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Two drawings of the same image overlaid on top of each other.
275 x 205 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"p. 76"--in red ink on bottom right recto; "X - 82"--in pencil on bottom right recto.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden.
Summary
Man in double breasted coat sneers at a frilly set of shirt and pants, closely resembling a clown's clothes, as a woman looks at him fretfully in the background.
Medium
Pen and black ink with correction fluid on paper; graphite and yellow ink on overlaid tracing paper.
Classification