"The National Endowment for the Arts is offering you a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to lie fallow for a year." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
292543
Accession number: 
MA 12868
Author: 
Lorenz, Lee.
Published: 
1986.
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 published in The New Yorker, Jan. 26, 1987.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Copyright 1986 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. statement--taped on bottom center verso.

Summary: 

Woman speaks to a punk rock painter, who is on a scaffold working on a giant canvas of a gunpoint mugging and police car, with other huge pseudo expressionist paintings leaning against the walls of the studio.

Medium: 
Brush and black ink with correction fluid on paper.
Dimensions: 
350 x 430 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: