"Why my thumb?" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266143
Accession number: 
MA 11580
Author: 
Martin, Charles E. (Charles Elmer), 1910-1995.
Published: 
20th century.
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 submitted to The New Yorker.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Address stamp of Richard McCallister (not the artist) on verso.

Summary: 

Two men in desert/safari garb stand near a leaking oil pipeline in a barren landscape.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with graphite and overlaid type written correction, on paper.
Dimensions: 
200 x 277 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: