BIB_ID
266350
Accession number
MA 12511
Creator
Price, Garrett, 1896-1979.
Published
1955.
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
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Mar. 12, 1955.
426 x 335 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Caption: "She says it drags"--in ink on lower center verso.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
A movie ticket box office agent tells a couple that a film that has great reviews for it plastered all over the marquee ("Exciting! Electrifying! Dynamic!") is actually a bore.
Medium
Compressed charcoal, pastel and gouache with graphite and pen and ink, on paper.
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