"What I can't understand is: are we here at the request of the government that's in power now or the government that was in power last week or the one that was in power six weeks ago?" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID

267003

Accession number

MA 12667

Creator

Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001.

Published

1965.

Credit line

The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.

Description

1 drawing.

Notes

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, July 10. 1965.

405 x 440 mm

Provenance

Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.

Summary

Two enlisted men sit under a tree eating soup and drinking water from a canteen, near a troop transport helicopter.

Medium

Pen, brush and black ink with graphite and charcoal pencil with correction fluid, on paper.

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