Water shortage: how New Yorkers will cope poster : cartoon for Sunday Daily News Magazine [drawing].

Record ID: 
266354
Accession number: 
MA 12929
Author: 
Tallon, Robert.
Published: 
1981.
Credit: 
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, 2006.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Original drawing for a cartoon published on the cover of the Sunday Daily News Magazine, March 1, 1981.
Print reproduction of this drawing is MA 12128.

Summary: 

Drought situations depicted, with fountains run dry, rowboats stranded on land, a cart pulled by a camel with a man selling water off the back, a cactus juice vendor and a buzzard on a dried out tree branch.

Medium: 
Tempera with brush and ink and graphite on paper.
Dimensions: 
558 x 458 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden.
Classification: