"You notice how these telephone pitches always come just when you're about to achieve satori?" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
265936
Accession number: 
MA 11530
Author: 
Wilson, Gahan.
Published: 
1996.
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 published in The New Yorker, June 10, 1996.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"Oct. 15, 1996" - in ink on verso with artist's signature; the New Yorker barcode sticker on verso: A1989.

Summary: 

Three Buddhist monks sit cross-legged in meditation; the middle one is answering a cellular phone.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with graphite inscription, on paper.
Dimensions: 
230 x 305 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: