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Girl dresses up to present report card to father : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
267163
Accession number
MA 11798.1-5
Creator
Price, Garrett, 1896-1979.
Published
1953
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
5 drawings.
Notes
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Dec. 19, 1953.
Title supplied by cataloger.
254 x 155 mm (each)
Inscriptions/Markings
"Idea by Herb Valen"--in pencil on bottom right of recto of fifth drawing.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Girl comes home from school, quietly sneaking in, takes her school clothes off, puts a nice dress on, examines herself in the mirror, and then gives her report card to her pipe-smoking father.
Medium
Pen and black ink with pastel and graphite and overlaid correction on drawing, on paper.
Classification