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How About a Little More Coffee, New Yorker Cartoon

Creator: Gahan Wilson
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Interpretation 1: An utterly exhausted man collapses face-first into a diner's countertop. His face and the countertop become one. In contrast and seemingly oblivious to the acute nature of the man's condition, the night server gleefully offers him coffee instead of more appropriate help. Interpretation 2: The night server/psycho killer pours unsuspecting customer poisoned coffee and then taunts his lifeless body in a victorious tone. Like Charles Addams, Gahan Wilson's dark humor is fully displayed in this classic cartoon for the New Yorker and perhaps in one of Wilson's cartoon books for St. Martins Press. Signed lower left. Besides being a great conceptual thinker, Wilson is also a great artist/graphic designer with a style that is unique to him. Unframed. The condition is very good.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1980-1999
Materials:	watercolor, ink
Condition:	Good. The condition is very good.
Creation Date:	1993
Styles / Movements:	Modernism, Surrealism, Illustration
Incollect Reference #:	623238

Dimensions

W.	9 in;	H.	8 in;
W.	22.86 cm;	H.	20.32 cm;

Message from Seller:

You'll find an eclectic group of art works at Robert Funk Fine Art. 45 years of experience has shaped Director Robert Funk's multi-perspective approach to presenting art. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with great teachers such as first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish. In Graduate School he worked with famed critic E.C. Goossen and went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director, and Art Collector.