Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Working version of book jacket art for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's short-story collection "How I became a holy mother," 1976 : hand-colored photocopy.

BIB_ID
456925
Accession number
MA 23840.1486a
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.3 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Photocopied book jacket artwork, hand-colored using crayon and felt-tip pen, With a note at the bottom in brown felt-tip in James Ivory's [?] hand: The yellow of the hair is much softer! Lillalou, who coloured this!!
Artwork is probably the work of artist Ron Bowen. In an accompanying carbon copy letter, James Ivory also refers to the person who performed the coloring as "Lillalou" [see MA 23840.1486].
Associated with a carbon copy letter from James Ivory to Osyth Leeston dated January 19, 1976 [see MA 23840.1486].
Provenance
James Ivory.