Opportunity Knocks

Vaughn Richard Shoemaker

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (American, 1902–1991). Opportunity Knocks, n.d.. Ink, crayon, and blue pencil with touches of white correction fluid on paper, Sheet: 17 3/8 x 14 in. (44.1 x 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harold J. Baily, 67.27.20. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Opportunity Knocks

Date

n.d.

Medium

Ink, crayon, and blue pencil with touches of white correction fluid on paper

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

Sheet: 17 3/8 x 14 in. (44.1 x 35.6 cm)

Signatures

Signed in ink, lower left: "SHOEMAKER"

Inscriptions

Inscribed in red ink, lower left, in artist's hand: "To Harold Baily / with the Best of Wishes / SHOEMAKER" Inscribed on verso, in green ink, in different hand: "V. S's first / cartoon in NY. H.-Tribune / about Nov. '56"

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Harold J. Baily

Accession Number

67.27.20

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