Old Money, New Face

—46 x 32 inches
—Colored pencil on paper
—New York, US

(2019) McGoldrick has drawn NYC’s iconic Anthora coffee cup several times in hyperrealistic form, but in this newest release she pairs it with a page ripped from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” a classic American novel revolved around a mysterious wealthy man in 1920s New York. The combination is meant to parallel the ways the artist perceives New York. “We have old traditions, old literature, new money, and some little lady hoping to put all of it to good use...”

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