Joe Dator's New Yorker cartoon from the issue of October 24, 2016 depicts the construction workers in Charles Clyde Ebbets's iconic 1932 photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper. The staged image was first published in the New York Herald Tribune to publicize the construction of Rockefeller Center. There remains some doubt as to the identify of the photographer. The building under construction was the RCA Building, or 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
The drawing was sold on eBay in January, part of a group of original New Yorker drawings offered for sale by the artist. This work was sold for an undisclosed best offer somewhere under $1,000. In the listing, the cartoonist identifies the famous photo on which the drawing is based. He also discloses that some of the faces were digitally altered prior to publication.
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| "It was worth waiting four months for a reservation." Joe Dator Original art The New Yorker, October 24, 2016, p. 39 |
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| Detail. The face on the right was digitally altered prior to publication. |
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| Joe Dator eBay listing ended January 8, 2022 |
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| Joe Dator eBay item description |
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Joe Dator's couple replaces two of the construction workers in the center of the image.
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| Charles Clyde Ebbets[?] Lunch Atop a Skyscraper New York Herald Tribune, October 2, 1932 |
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| "It was worth waiting four months for a reservation." Joe Dator Original art The New Yorker, October 24, 2016, p. 39 |
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