Record ID:
265774
Accession number:
MA 11998
Published:
1981.
Credit:
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 submitted to The New Yorker.
Inscriptions/Markings:
"Thomas B. Allen July 21, 1981"--in pencil on bottom left verso.
Summary:
Harlem nightclub scene from the 1920s, with a jazz band featuring banjo, tuba, drums, piano, trumpets and saxophones playing on a bandstand as black couples dance.
Medium:
Graphite on paper.
Dimensions:
284 x 355 mm
Provenance:
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
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