Drawing, A broker Waving Goodby with his Hat

If you saw the drawing I posted yesterday, then you know that the stockbroker lost his hat on Wall street, and a homeless man went off with it. But in this drawing you can see that the stockbroker has his hat back and is waving goodbye to someone with it. This is what happened, the homeless man sold this hat back to the stockbroker for 100 dollars. In this drawing you can see that the hat is up in the air and there are buildings down under the hat. This is completely correct because if you go outside and hold a hat up in the air, your hat and your hand will be “in” the sky, and everything else will be underneath it.

And if you ask me, “Richard why is the hat lit from the left, and the building lit from the right? I would answer that the buildings were drawn at the bottom of the paper four years ago, and the hat about fifteen minutes ago. Furthermore the buildings were drawn in the morning and the hat was drawn in the afternoon.

Drawing, A Day in the Life of Six Hats

This is actually six drawings. They are all the same size and materials. Whomever buys these drawings is going to need to know the following information.

HAT 1: This is a party hat. It was purchased yesterday for the birthday of the man who is asleep there in bed, you can see his foot in the drawing down on the bottom right. This is no ordinary party hat, it is made entirely of expensive cloth carefully hand stitched together. The man whose hat this is, when he gets up later will have to decide what to do with the hat. He can’t just throw it away. Years from now it will be a prized possession of his children who will use it in all their games.

HAT 2: This is a brand new military hat just out of the box. You can see the box there at the bottom of the drawing. Those big military hat boxes are excellent for keeping all of your important papers and documents in.

HAT 3: This is a very expensive hat belonging to a wealthy stock broker in New York. This hat blew off of his head this morning and landed there in the gutter. Incidentally, you can see clearly that it is New York because the curb has the quarter round of shiny steel at the edge that you see on New York curbing. Well, even though the hat cost in excess of $100 dollars, the man did not run to fetch it back. Good thing he didn’t to because the moment he got to the office he concluded a stock deal for a quarter of a million dollars, which would have fallen through had he been two seconds late. As for the hat, a homeless man has it , and although it gets him big laughs, his manor is changing and he seems more thoughtful now.

HAT 4: This is a band leaders parade hat which only gets used once a year. It spends the rest of the time in a locker in a high school hallway in upstate New York.

HAT 5: This hat belongs to a very beautiful young woman going to Vassar college. She is going to wear it today with that top that you can see there in the dresser drawer. Let me tell you what kind of a woman she is. Every day, in the afternoon, she draws a little sketch of what she is going to wear the next day in the borders of her school notebook. These little sketches are so good that you would think she would be studying fashion design, but she is studying physics.

HAT 6 This looks like a baseball cap but its long brim makes it a hunting cap. It was purchased by a man from a mail order catalog. He didn’t like it but the very day he got it and planned to return it, it got rained on and shrank terribly. Now he can’t return it, but it doesn’t matter because the dog is about to eat it. You can see in the drawing that the hat has been dragged down next to the dog’s food bowl. By the time you get to read this that hat will have ceased to exist.