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1934

  • Work on this object began.

1944

  • Work on this object ended.

1948

  • We acquired this object.

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Drawing, Design for a Cover of The New Yorker or Promenade Magazine

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Christina Malman and made for (as the client) The New Yorker Magazine. It is dated ca. 1939 and we acquired it in 1948. Its medium is graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor, crayon on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Nothing's Flocking.

This object was donated by Christina Malman. It is credited Gift of Christina Malman.

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Its dimensions are

23.3 × 39.4 cm (9 3/16 × 15 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Signed in black ink, lower left corner: Malman.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Cover of The New Yorker or Promenade Magazine; Designed by Christina Malman (American, b. England, 1911–1959); Client: The New Yorker Magazine; USA; graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor, crayon on off-white laid paper; 23.3 × 39.4 cm (9 3/16 × 15 1/2 in.); Gift of Christina Malman; 1947-110-3

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