"Now that's a corporate farm." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266691
Accession number: 
MA 11727
Author: 
Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001.
Published: 
1976.
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, Oct. 11, 1976.
Published cartoon is much more elaborate with an Agricorp Industries gate and sign and a much more detailed and regimemted farm complex containing cows, sheep and pigs.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"PnGA 923"--in pencil on verso; "more animals. now that's a corporate farm."--in pencil on recto.

Summary: 

One man to another as they observe a straight line of pigs awaiting to eat or drink from the trough.

Medium: 
Black porous pointed pen with graphite on paper.
Dimensions: 
215 x 280 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: