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1933

  • Work on this object began.

1943

  • Work on this object ended.

1960

  • We acquired this object.

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Drawing, Design for a Cover of The New Yorker

This is a Drawing. It was created by Christina Malman and made for (as the client) The New Yorker Magazine. It is dated ca. 1938 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite 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

48.3 × 37.5 cm (19 × 14 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right: Tominy [?]; lower left: [encircled: 4

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Cover of The New Yorker; Christina Malman (American, b. England, 1911–1959); Client: The New Yorker Magazine; USA; pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paper; 48.3 × 37.5 cm (19 × 14 3/4 in.); 1960-214-8

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