"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].

Record ID: 
267003
Accession number: 
MA 12667
Author: 
Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001.
Published: 
1965.
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, July 10. 1965.

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.
Dimensions: 
405 x 440 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts