BIB_ID
446979
Accession number
MA 23829.34
Creator
Wuerker, Matt, 1956-, artist.
Display Date
United States, 2009 February 8
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Anonymous gift in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2021.
Description
1 drawing
Notes
Title from published caption.
Original drawing for a cartoon published in Politico, February 8, 2009.
Original drawing for a cartoon published in Politico, February 8, 2009.
230 x 300 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in ink on verso: For Mel, / Best wishes, / M. Wuerker / 2/16/09.
Summary
Cartoon shows President Barack Obama with a sheaf of documents labeled "Afghan escalation plan" under his arm, standing before a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, labeled "Honest Abe" at left, and striking a stance which emulates that of its subject; at right, a portrait of Lyndon Johnson, labeled "Quagmire Johnson", and showing him clinging to a branch and up to his waist in water, reaches an arm out of the frame to tap Obama on the shoulder.
Medium
Black ink and watercolor on paper.
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