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1932

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Drawing, Design for a Cover of The New Yorker, ca. 1937

This is a Drawing. It was created by Christina Malman and made for (as the client) The New Yorker Magazine. It is dated ca. 1937 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and ink, graphite with silver foil on red paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Dexter Masters.

Its dimensions are

48.3 × 37.1 cm (19 × 14 5/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and ink, lower left: Malman

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Cover of The New Yorker, ca. 1937; Christina Malman (American, b. England, 1911–1959); Client: The New Yorker Magazine; USA; pen and ink, brush and ink, graphite with silver foil on red paper; 48.3 × 37.1 cm (19 × 14 5/8 in.); 1960-214-9

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