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Woman reading and having a romantic fantasy : illustration for Jean Kerr's "Penny Candy" [drawing].

BIB_ID
267128
Accession number
MA 12199
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.
305 x 228 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"p. 91"--in red ink on bottom right recto; "XII - 97"--in pencil on bottom right recto.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden.
Summary
Woman in bed, smiling and reading a book called "Prescott's Conquest of Mexico", as she daydreams of a man in a plaid suit embracing a woman, while three small boys tussle in the background.
Medium
Pen and black ink on paper; graphite and yellow ink on overlaid tracing paper.
Classification