By the way, I suppose the Metropolitan Museum is well worth a visit?
A cartoon design showing two fashionably dressed women walking other along Fifth Avenue across the street from the Metropolitan Museum. Their conversation is recorded below: Stranger – "By the way, I suppose the Metropolitan Museum is well worth a visit." Native-"I've never been in it. You see, we've lived only a block away from it for years."
Artwork Details
- Title: By the way, I suppose the Metropolitan Museum is well worth a visit?
- Artist: Charles Frederick Peters (American, 1882–1948)
- Date: 1925–39
- Medium: Pen and ink
- Dimensions: Plate: 6 15/16 × 9 7/8 in. (17.7 × 25.1 cm)
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (22.5 × 29.9 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Museum Accession, 1946
- Object Number: Ref.1946.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Charles Frederick Peters
1925–39
Louise Bourgeois
1947
David Levine
1966
Frank Lloyd Wright
ca. 1912–13
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