"Rock Style" exhibition at the Met : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
344609
Accession number: 
MA 12846
Author: 
Roth, Arnold, 1929-
Published: 
1999.
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 "Sketchbook" section, Dec. 19, 1999.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"Rock style exhibition"--in pencil on bottom center recto.

Summary: 

Art handler takes Madonna's bustier costume up the stairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while another pair carry down a portrait of a Renaissance woman in a similarly elaborate outfit.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink with watercolor on paper.
Dimensions: 
451 x 376 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: