"The story is that Wright was going through considerable domestic difficulties at the time he designed this one." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
267217
Accession number: 
MA 12875
Author: 
Fisher, Edwin.
Published: 
1993.
Credit: 
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, 2006.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Mar. 14, 1994.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Copyright 1993 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker--on bottom right verso.

Summary: 

Man speaking to woman looking at a house resembling Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house for the Kaufmann family, however, the terrace and windows above the waterfall form a demonic looking face and maw.

Medium: 
Charcoal with graphite and correction fluid with inscription in porous pointed pen, on paper.
Dimensions: 
347 x 410 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden.
Classification: