Artist/Maker
James Penney
(1910 - 1982)
School of Ballet: Design for a Cover of "The New Yorker"
1934-1935
Poster paint, watercolor, and graphite on Joseph Torch Board
Overall: 19 7/8 x 14 in. (50.5 x 35.6 cm)
Gift of Carole Pesner and Katherine Degn
2006.18.13
This work is related to the artist's painting 'Crowd', 1933-34, in a private collection in Brighton, Massachusetts.
DescriptionOn the verso of one of the final layouts the artist annotated the class as taking place on 58th--crossed out 59th--Street and Broadway. Related to his four other designs the same cover, see objects 2006.18.9 - 2006.18.13ClassificationsDRAWINGS
James Penney
mid-1930s
2006.18.8
James Penney
1936-1937
2006.18.1
Russell Patterson
1940
2016.48.1