Artist Ralph Fasanella (1914 - 1997)

News Dealer No 1

Date1947

DimensionsSight: 22 3/4 × 27 5/8 in. (57.8 × 70.2 cm)

Object numberN0005.2008

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Jane Ferrara, in memory of Ron Ferrara

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextThis painting was inspired by an actual blind news dealer that Fasanella knew from a Bronx subway station in the 1930s. Something about the man's innocence in the midst of pervasive mass media trash stuck with the artist, who painted at least two versions of this subject.

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