Birthday party : cover illustration for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266604
Accession number: 
MA 12294
Author: 
Tallon, Robert.
Published: 
1979.
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, May 12, 1980.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Copyright 1979 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. statement--taped on bottom left verso.

Summary: 

Kids at a party wearing hats sit around a table with colorful balloons strung above it: a stack of presents are piled in front of the birthday boy and a cake with six lit candles on it sits in the middle of the table.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink with brush and colored ink and graphite, on paper.
Dimensions: 
350 x 277 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: