Fine pencil, ink and watercolor design for a New Yorker cover

by Barbara Shermund

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 vols. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 ; in an archival mat, overall dimensions 18 x 15 On medium-weight art paper, fine condition. Item #12776 Although this is a preparatory drawing, it is a well-rendered, lively, and highly decorative image, consisting of a montage of fall motifs: colorful foliage, spacious skies, amber grain, purple mountains, fruited plains, a church, a silo, a school complete with child, tourist directions, with The New Yorker lettered

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