"My girlfriend over in Central Planning says that if everything stays on track it's definitely Bloomie's and Saks by the mid-nineties." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266051
Accession number: 
MA 12422
Author: 
Reilly, Donald.
Published: 
1989.
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, Nov. 13, 1989.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"My girlfriend over in Central Planning says the thinking is, if everything stays on track, it's definitely Bloomie's and Saks by the mid-nineties!"--in pencil on bottom center verso.

Summary: 

One Russian woman, holding shopping bags and wearing fur, speaks to another of the coming capitalist reforms as the Kremlin can be seen in the background.

Medium: 
Black compressed charcoal with caption in porous pointed pen on paper.
Dimensions: 
355 x 430 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: