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Newsstand

Maker Don Freeman (American, 1908 - 1978)

ClassificationsINFORMATION ARTIFACTS

Date1941

Mediumink on paper

Dimensions12 x 9 1/4 in. (30.5 x 23.5 cm.)

DescriptionMan selling red flowers wrapped in newspapers from a cart Text reads: Don Freeman's Newsstand / A Journal of One Man's Manhattan Contains the following 35 images or short stories: Table of Contents and List of Artists, April Showers on Columbus Circle, Spring Lane, Spring Cleaning in the Subway, How Does your Garden Grow?, Dancing, Palm Sunday, Adolf Dehn sketching the Easter Parade, Easter Parade, The Boardwalk Camp Dix Sunday, How I met Joe Gould by William Saroyan, Broadway Theater, A Few Words About Our City from Boris Karloff, Boris Karloff, Orson Welles directs "Native Son", Richard Waring of "The Corn is Green", Untitled [Man behind curtain], Untitled [Three children], Jerome Myers [short story], To the Memory of Jerome Myers, Untitled [ Viewing a painting in a gallery], Personally I don't feel any plastic consciousness in his work, Beauford Delaney of Downing Street, No. 10 Downing Street [short story], Untitled [Woman in Salon], Father of the Blues - W.C. Handey at home in his office, A personal complaint to the Mayor - He's never too busy, Loud Mouths, Fragment from an unfinished verse drama by Norman Corwin, Untitled [Statue of Liberty], Arriving from Lisbon, Untitled [street scene], A Man of Means, Under the Bridge of Sighs, Untitled [trash truck]

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Bonnie and Lee Stone

Status

Not on view

Object number2015.7.15