"Meanwhile at the Café de la Mort...Ernest Hemingway is ridiculing Oscar Wilde's wine spritzer while Truman Capote takes notes." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266084
Accession number: 
MA 11569
Author: 
Ziegler, Jack.
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, Dec. 4, 1989.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"Dec. 13, 1989" -- in ink on verso with artist's signature; copyright 1989 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AH 5088. Editorial notes in pencil on verso: "Query: should Hemingway be drinking hard liquor, not beer?" Drawing was not altered further for publication.

Summary: 

In an outdoor cafe scene, a beer drinking Hemingway points and laughs at a dandy Wilde at another table, while Capote holds his hat and writes in the background.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with graphite and correction fluid, on paper.
Dimensions: 
227 x 304 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: