Who's Singing Off Key?
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Jay Darling (American, 1876–1962). Who's Singing Off Key?, 1933. Ink over graphite on paper, sheet: 28 11/16 x 22 5/8 in. (72.9 x 57.5 cm) image: 27 13/16 x 21 11/16 in. (70.6 x 55.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harold J. Baily, 67.62.9. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Who's Singing Off Key?
Date
1933
Medium
Ink over graphite on paper
Classification
Dimensions
sheet: 28 11/16 x 22 5/8 in. (72.9 x 57.5 cm) image: 27 13/16 x 21 11/16 in. (70.6 x 55.1 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right in ink: "Ding"
Inscriptions
Inscribed in artist's hand, in ink at lower right: "To Bing Bailey [sic] / Faithfully -- IN-KAI -- / FROM J. N. Darling" Autographs of some of the figures inscribed below their image: "Alfred Smith," "Hugh Johnson," and "Eleanor Roosevelt [below Franklin Delano Roosevelt]" Title inscribed in graphite in top margin of sheet, "WHO'S SINGING OFF KEY?" and in ink in bottom margin of sheet (slight variation) "WHO' SINGING OFF KEY?"
Markings
On verso, top center, collector's inscription written in black pencil: "Property of / Harold J. Baily / 3434 Bedford Ave. / Brooklyn, N.Y." and "Rec'd / Nov. 17. 33 / Published on / Nov. 7. 33"
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Harold J. Baily
Accession Number
67.62.9
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