Author Daniel Asa Rose shares with us a fantastic drawing by Carl Rose (no relation) of a mythological subject. Here he tells us how the drawing came to be in the possession of his father, a Rowayton (Connecticut) psychiatrist who was friends with the artist:
The drawing seems well-suited as a gift to a psychiatrist—or anyone else. It features a centaur, a sphinx, and a gryphon who are coping with a similar issue. The composition is triangular or, perhaps even more appropriately, pyramidal.
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Carl Rose
Original New Yorker Cartoon Art
You can tell the background story, if you like. That he was a family friend, always hanging with the same very civilized bathers on the beach of Rowayton, Conn during the 60’s. Not that such idleness was characteristic of him. He once told my father that he’d been up the whole night previous just getting the expression correct on someone’s face. They had a nice rapport, the cartoonist and the psychiatrist, and Carl drew the cartoon you see here and gave it to my father after one of their animated conversations on the sand. It ended in 1971 when my father received a phone call hastening him to the house — Carl was dying. My father rushed over but was too late. He had the sad honor of declaring Carl dead at the age of 68.
The drawing seems well-suited as a gift to a psychiatrist—or anyone else. It features a centaur, a sphinx, and a gryphon who are coping with a similar issue. The composition is triangular or, perhaps even more appropriately, pyramidal.
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| "You think you're the only one around here with an identity crisis?" Carl Rose, original art The New Yorker, April 3, 1971, page 107
Photo courtesy of Daniel Asa Rose
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| "You think you're the only one around here with an identity crisis?" Carl Rose, original art The New Yorker, April 3, 1971, page 107
Photo courtesy of Daniel Asa Rose
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| Carl Rose The New Yorker, April 3, 1971, page 107 |
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| http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1971-04-03#folio=106 |
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Carl Rose
Original New Yorker Cartoon Art
