1965.529: "Well, Maybe You're Sitting on the Wrong End."

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.529

People

George Price, American (Coytesville NJ 1901 - 1995)

Title

"Well, Maybe You're Sitting on the Wrong End."

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

album folio, drawing

Date

20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308840

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gouache on heavy off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 26.9 x 30.3 cm (10 9/16 x 11 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: Geo Price
• inscription: l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: "Well, maybe you're sitting on the wrong end."
• inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: 51 [in circle]
• inscription: verso, u.r., blue pencil: AA8141
• inscription: verso, graphite: 4 5/8 [illeg.]
• stamp: verso, blue ink, stamped: Leave bearers / benday; [N]ew Yorker / [ ]l Department / [ ]t 43rd Street
• inscription: verso, red pencil: 4 blues [ ]
• inscription: verso, graphite: 5088 / 4-3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

David T. Owsley, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David T. Owsley

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.529

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• [Reproduction only], The New Yorker, (New York, NY, July 8, 1939).

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