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Indian's smashed thumb : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
266620
Accession number
MA 11627.1-8
Creator
Smith, Claude.
Published
1965.
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.
Description
8 drawings.
Notes
Original drawings (8) for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, June 12, 1965.
Title supplied by cataloger.
130 x 215 mm (each: two sketches of one panel apiece)
Inscriptions/Markings
Fourth drawing has a copyright 1965 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AE 2780.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Indian while hammering a sign for souvenirs hits his thumb and jumps around in pain: sudden downpour indicates he was unwittingly doing a rain dance.
Medium
Graphite on paper.
Classification