Woman reading on inflatable raft : cover illustration for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266593
Accession number: 
MA 12661
Author: 
Grooms, Red.
Published: 
1992.
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 an illustration published on the cover of The New Yorker, Jan. 11, 1993; another drawing was submitted for the final version, as certain details differ in the published version.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"For Lee Red Grooms '92"--in pencil on top recto; "Coney Island"--in ink on top left verso.

Summary: 

Blonde woman with fake eyelashes is depicted as floating on an inflatable raft and reading about Hawaii, in a Coney Island beach setting, with roller coasters, ferris wheel and a parachute jump seen in the background.

Medium: 
Brush and color inks with graphite and collaged paper, on paper.
Dimensions: 
325 x 462 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: