BIB_ID
266303
Accession number
MA 11596
Creator
Booth, George, 1926-
Published
1979.
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 published caption: "Templeton has been catching crappies all morning on a jig. He snagged a seven-pound bass on a Mississippi silverside minnow, and now he's after a monstrous channel cat with a stinkball. You'd better wake him before he goes over the limit."
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Feb. 5, 1979.
Painting image with the drawing appears to have been changed wholesale as the overlaid correction is soely within the frame.
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Feb. 5, 1979.
Painting image with the drawing appears to have been changed wholesale as the overlaid correction is soely within the frame.
305 x 228 mm
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Man to butler in gentleman's club. Templeton flails about, knocking over a pipe and a standing ashtray as he sits dreaming in a chair.
Medium
Black ballpoint pen, porous pointed pen with correction fluid and overlaid correction, on paper.
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