‘Dancer’, original artwork]

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE INC. - Robert Andrew PARKER (artist, b. 1927).

‘Dancer’, original artwork] [Undated]. Original pencil and gouache drawing on prepared paper, signed lower left margin, on watercolor paper (11 1/8 x 8in; 283 x 203mm), a New Yorker Magazine label to the verso.

Provenance: the Artist

A ballet dancer stands hands-on-hips – resting; listening to instructions; reflecting to what she has to do; reflecting on what she has just done.…  It is not clear when this image appeared in the New Yorker.

“Robert Andrew Parker is an American artist known for both his paintings and prints of figures, landscapes, and animals. Parker has produced set designs for operas and films, as well as illustrations for over 40 children’s books during the course of his career. “Robert Andrew Parker is one of the most accurate and at the same time most unliteral of painters,” the poet Marianne Moore wrote of him. “He combines the mystical and the actual, working both in an abstract and a realistic way.” Born in Norfolk, VA in 1927, he went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago during the late 1950s. …. [ Parker lives and works in rural Connecticut.] Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.” (ArtNet).For a detailed resume see http://www.davisandlangdale.com/Pages/RobertAndrewParker.html