Original artwork for proposed Time magazine cover from 1976. Graphite pencil, india ink, and markers on Bristol board. 152x265 mm; 6x10 inches. Signed "Nicky Zann" in lower right image.
Time commissioned this work in 1976, before the presidential election, but chose not to run it. After Carter was elected President of the United States, Time distributed an internal memo with a photo of this proposed cover, stating that this was one of the covers that should have run.
Zann was a New York-based artist whose career spanned five decades and reached far and wide across New York's pop and culture scene. Recognized as one of the most innovative and prolific cartoonists and illustrators of his generation, Zann's work has appeared in magazines such as Newsweek, Esquire, Fortune; daily newspapers such as The New York Times; and in comics and on mystery covers. His celebrity caricatures have been featured in ads for ABC, MTV, CBS and NBC networks, as well as for HBO. In the early 1970s, the Disney Corporation endorsed Zann to draw Disney characters, all personally approved by Roy Disney. His work has been exhibited around the world including at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Textile Museum in the Netherlands.
