"He's pretty good at rote categorization and single-object relational tasks, but he's not so hot at differentiating between representational and associational signs, and he's very weak on syntax." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266066
Accession number: 
MA 12431
Author: 
Stevenson, James, 1929-2017.
Published: 
1988.
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, Sept. 25, 1989.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Copyright 1988 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker--on bottom right verso.

Summary: 

One monkey to another in a cage in a laboratory, as they remark upon the scientist taking notes on them.

Medium: 
Porous pointed pen with brush and black ink and correction fluid on paper.
Dimensions: 
355 x 430 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts