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Drawing, Carnegie Hall Children's Concert, ca. 1940

This is a Drawing. It was created by Christina Malman and made for (as the client) The New Yorker Magazine. It is dated ca. 1940 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is pen and brown ink, colored crayon on cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Dexter Masters.

Its dimensions are

51.5 × 35.6 cm (20 1/4 in. × 14 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and ink, lower left: Malman

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, top: Carnegie Hall Children's Concert - Unfinished; lower left [three lines]: little man with 3 children/ lady with class/ whistling

Cite this object as

Drawing, Carnegie Hall Children's Concert, ca. 1940; Christina Malman (American, b. England, 1911–1959); Client: The New Yorker Magazine; USA; pen and brown ink, colored crayon on cream paper; 51.5 × 35.6 cm (20 1/4 in. × 14 in.); 1960-214-6

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