"I'll have to hang up now. I think I hear my water running over." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
344663
Accession number: 
MA 12860
Author: 
Decker, Richard, 1907-
Published: 
1942.
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, June 13, 1942.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"R Check with artist on water. Said to look like hair."--in pencil on upper left verso.

Summary: 

Dam operator on telephone makes it sound like he is running a bath.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with charcoal and graphite on paper.
Dimensions: 
370 x 482 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.