Existing comment:
(52) No Answer. 1962.
Published in the New York Journal.
Crayon, graphite, and opaque white.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-07173 (52)
Although published as an editorial cartoon, this image of Marilyn Monroe's bare arm on her bed with a telephone in her hand has all the qualities of an illustration. Burris Jenkins, Jr. (1896?-1966) captured the nighttime scene, with the lights of Hollywood visible through the window. Monroe, known as a sex symbol as well as a film actress, was found dead of a drug overdose in her bed on August 5, 1962. Reports that she was found with a telephone in her hand led many to believe that her death had been accidental. Jenkins worked as a reporter and then a cartoonist for the New York World and the New York Journal. |