"It's all right, sir. They're fighting a rear-guard action." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
281697
Accession number: 
MA 12743
Author: 
Dunn, Alan, 1900-1974.
Published: 
1940.
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. 24, 1940.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Alternate sketch version of the same scene--in pencil on center verso.

Summary: 

Soldier salutes and speaks to his superior, as he is visibly upset about the small company of army men sleeping under a tree and playing cards on the grass, near a farmhouse.

Medium: 
Black wax crayon on paper, mounted on illustration board.
Dimensions: 
361 x 338 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: