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.

Thanksgiving Day

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Louis Raemaekers
1869-1956

Thanksgiving Day

ca. 1918
20 1/16 x 27 3/8 inches (510 x 695 mm)
Black chalk, with brown, blue, green, and pink watercolor, on cream paper; framing lines in black chalk.
2006.73

Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right, in black chalk, inside framing line, "Louis Raemaekers." Inscribed above image in black chalk, "Thanksgiving day" and "[illegible] to France" [cancelled]; below image, "What we have to be thankful for.", "Reserved for Mr. Lafan Allen, Lincoln Bank Bldg, Louisville, KY" (partially cut off), and framers marks in lower right corner. Stamp on verso lettered "Puck", partially cut off.
Classification
Century Drawings