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Depression Crowd with Men in Coats and Hats: Design for the Cover of "The New Yorker"
Depression Crowd with Men in Coats and Hats: Design for the Cover of "The New Yorker"
Artist/Maker (1910 - 1982)

Depression Crowd with Men in Coats and Hats: Design for the Cover of "The New Yorker"

mid-1930s
Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on card
Overall: 20 1/8 x 15 1/4 in. (51.1 x 38.7 cm), irregular
Gift of Carole Pesner and Katherine Degn
2006.18.8
This work is related to the artist's painting 'Crowd', 1933-34, in a private collection in Brighton, Massachusetts.
DescriptionThis design is related to his painting "Crowd", 1933-34, in a private collection in Brighton, Massachusetts; with Moses Soyer (1899-1974)*

Signedsigned at lower right in black ink outside the image: JAMES PENNEY
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
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1930s-1940s
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Commemorative ribbon
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John Quincy Adams
ca. 1848
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Edward Whaites
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Unidentified artist
22-25 April 1861
1945.580.37