"Lots of folks say the Reagan program is going to make a clean sweep of all our problems right away, but Mr. Pudney has stated that it will be quite some time yet before we get things licked into shape." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266770
Accession number: 
MA 11868
Author: 
Booth, George, 1926-
Published: 
1981.
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, Aug. 10, 1981.

Summary: 

Old woman speaks to a neighbor, as she stands on the porch of her run down farmhouse, while Mr. Pudney sits smoking a pipe in the yard cluttered with engine parts and dismantled bicycles.

Medium: 
Black ballpoint pen and porous pointed pen with correction fluid, on paper.
Dimensions: 
305 x 230 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: