BIB_ID
282683
Accession number
MA 12314
Creator
Taylor, Richard.
Published
1939.
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
1 drawing.
Notes
Final version published under the name "A Revised Statuary for the City of Tomorrow".
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939.
Title supplied cataloger.
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939.
Title supplied cataloger.
292 x 128 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Sample technique from the N.Y. statue series"--in pencil on bottom right recto.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Upon a classical pillar, a worried George Washington in powdered wig is very stressed out while reading the latest news from a stock report ticker tape.
Medium
Pen, brush and black and white ink with graphite inscription on illustration board.
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