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.

"The story is that Wright was going through considerable domestic difficulties at the time he designed this one." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
267217
Accession number
MA 12875
Creator
Fisher, Edwin.
Published
1993.
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, 2006.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Mar. 14, 1994.
347 x 410 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Copyright 1993 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker--on bottom right verso.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden.
Summary
Man speaking to woman looking at a house resembling Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house for the Kaufmann family, however, the terrace and windows above the waterfall form a demonic looking face and maw.
Medium
Charcoal with graphite and correction fluid with inscription in porous pointed pen, on paper.
Classification