Artist/Maker
James Penney
(1910 - 1982)
School of Ballet: Design for a Cover of "The New Yorker"
1934-1935
Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on newsprint (Whiting Paper Company watermark)
Overall: 17 3/8 x 12 1/16 in. (44.1 x 30.6 cm)
Gift of Carole Pesner and Katherine Degn
2006.18.11
This work is related to the artist's painting 'Crowd', 1933-34, in a private collection in Brighton, Massachusetts.
DescriptionRelated to his four other designs the same cover, see objects 2006.18.9 - 2006.18.13SignedSigned at lower right in black ink: PENNEY / 1935
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
James Penney
mid-1930s
2006.18.8
James Penney
1936-1937
2006.18.1