Warren Miller: Couples Therapy

The auction house Millea Bros., Ltd., is correct: the original cartoon art by Warren Miller of his-and-hers psychotherapists sharing a love seat was indeed published in The New Yorker—how could the editors have passed it up? Here are the auction details from yesterday's sale with The New Yorker information amended.

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Warren Miller Original art The New Yorker, August 15, 1988, p. 34

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Warren Miller Original art The New Yorker, August 15, 1988, p. 34

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Detail

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Warren Miller's signature and dedication to Dr. Eleanor Townsend

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Crack

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Warren Miller Millea Bros., Ltd., auction listing accessed February 5, 2023 https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/Warren-Miller,-original-New-Yorker-cartoon-3141-c-F4D4B9FA07?utm_source=alerts&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=keywordalerts&utm_content=173903

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Here's how the drawing looked when it first appeared in The New Yorker:

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Warren Miller Original art The New Yorker, August 15, 1988, p. 34

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Cartoons by Warren Miller and Jack Ziegler https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1988-08-15/flipbook/034/

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Jack Ziegler

Note:  Psychiatrist Dr. Eleanor Townsend's 2015 obituary from the Times may be seen here. She is almost certainly original recipient of this drawing.

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