Woman dragging son to barbershop : illustration for Jean Kerr's "Penny Candy" [drawing].

Record ID: 
267126
Accession number: 
MA 12197
Author: 
Darrow, Whitney, 1909-1999.
Published: 
1970.
Credit: 
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, 2006.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Drawing reproduced as an illustration for Jean Kerr's "Penny Candy" (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York 1970).
Two drawings of the same image overlaid on top of each other.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"p. 98-99"--in red ink on bottom right recto; "XIII 104-5"--in pencil on bottom right recto.

Summary: 

Woman marches to barbershop holding her shaggy haired son's hand, pulling him fully off of the ground in her haste, with her pocketbook strap straining against her neck.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink with correction fluid on paper; graphite and yellow ink on overlaid tracing paper.
Dimensions: 
358 x 282 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden.
Classification: