I Thought Pheasants Didn't Begin Until October

Charles Saxon

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Charles Saxon (American, 1920–1988). I Thought Pheasants Didn't Begin Until October, ca. 1966. Ink and crayon on paper mounted to paperboard mat, sheet: 13 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (35.2 x 40 cm) mat (sheet mounted to): 15 1/16 x 18 1/4 in. (38.3 x 46.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 68.103.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

I Thought Pheasants Didn't Begin Until October

Date

ca. 1966

Medium

Ink and crayon on paper mounted to paperboard mat

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

sheet: 13 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (35.2 x 40 cm) mat (sheet mounted to): 15 1/16 x 18 1/4 in. (38.3 x 46.4 cm)

Signatures

Signed in ink, lower right: "Saxon"

Inscriptions

On recto: title inscribed in graphite at bottom of mat, "'I thought pheasants didn't begin until October.'"; on verso, miscellaneous inscriptions and stamps, including stamp at lower left that reads, "COPYRIGHT 1966 / THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ... "

Credit Line

Gift of the artist

Accession Number

68.103.2

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