BIB_ID
265766
Accession number
MA 11489
Creator
Handelsman, J. B.
Published
1977
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
Full caption reads: "Our token Black - is that really how you think of yourself, Ms. Corwin? You're much more that that, I assure you. You're also our token woman."
Original drawing for a cartoon submitted to The New Yorker.
Original drawing for a cartoon submitted to The New Yorker.
230 x 295 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"19 January 1977" - in ink on verso, along with artist's signature; 016937 on verso.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
In a board room otherwise full of white males, the chairman addresses an African-American woman with glasses seated at the meeting table.
Medium
Pen and black ink, porous pointed pen, blue colored pencil, graphite and correction fluid, on paper.
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