"Oh, now, Mrs. Stokely, surely you can suggest centuries of oppression better than that." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266267
Accession number: 
MA 12476
Author: 
Hokinson, Helen E. (Helen Elna), 1893-1949.
Published: 
1950.
Credit: 
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, Mar. 11, 1950.
Both drawing and caption were redone for published version.

Summary: 

Female director at an amateur or community theater gives instruction to one of the actors onstage during rehearsal.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with charcoal and graphite insciption, on paper.
Dimensions: 
380 x 562 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: