Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Illustration of Isaak Babel's fictional character, Mendel Krik (the father of Benya Krik, who features in many of Babel’s short stories). At center, the figure of Mendel Krik depicted in black with a long white beard. Mendel Krik sits in a chair with legs crossed. Across the top, in red text: MENDEL KRIK. / [large number 2 in black] / HIS FATHER [red circle].
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Author
- Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Russian, 1894–1940
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.5 × 21.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
