"I'm bushed. Could someone else handle that runaway best seller for a while?" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266147
Accession number: 
MA 11584
Author: 
Tobey, B. (Barney), 1906-1989.
Published: 
20th century.
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: 

Address stamp of Richard McCallister (not the artist) on verso.

Summary: 

One bookstore clerk to another at a cash register while a crowd of people gather around the sale tables in the background.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with graphite, on paper.
Dimensions: 
230 x 301 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: