"'My dear,' he instructed her patiently under the girl's approving eyes, 'you will find it always pays to get the best'"
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
William Glackens (American, 1870–1938). "'My dear,' he instructed her patiently under the girl's approving eyes, 'you will find it always pays to get the best'", 1906. Black conte crayon, watercolor, opaque watercolor, and graphite on cream, moderately thick, smooth wove paper, Sheet: 15 3/8 x 12 3/16 in. (39.1 x 31 cm) Image: 13 x 11 7/16 in. (33 x 29.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 40.55. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Artist
Title
"'My dear,' he instructed her patiently under the girl's approving eyes, 'you will find it always pays to get the best'"
Date
1906
Medium
Black conte crayon, watercolor, opaque watercolor, and graphite on cream, moderately thick, smooth wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/8 x 12 3/16 in. (39.1 x 31 cm) Image: 13 x 11 7/16 in. (33 x 29.1 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "W. Glackens"
Inscriptions
Inscribed on verso, in graphite (artist's hand?): "Glackens" vertically down left side; and ' "My Dear, you will always pays [sic] / to get the best" '
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
40.55
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