Enough words have been expended on this subject. The image is on the cover of The New Yorker, Jan. 25, 2021. It was done by Barry Blitt. who was born in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec and went to the Ontario College of Art.
The title is, appropriately enough, A Weight Lifted.
The Bonus:
Blitt has done many covers for The New Yorker, but none as controversial as this one which resulted in many harsh emails, such as: "I hope your wife gets ovarian cancer."
Source:
The email to Blitt is found in this article: "Deconstructing Barry: Inside the Mind of Illustrator Barry Blitt: How He Created That Controversial New Yorker Cover, The Reaction It Provoked and What He Thinks About His Obama Fist-bump Now," Ashley Walters, Ryerson Review of Journalism, Summer, 2009.
For an earlier post about Blitt see: Canadian Cartoonists.
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