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Something new, eh? SWANN - no. 1160 (B size) (B size)...

TITLE:Something new, eh?

CALL NUMBER:SWANN - no. 1160 (B size) (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-94667 (b&w film copy neg.)

SUMMARY:Death, wearing a black shroud, leans with arms folded on a discarded icebox. The large sickle of "the grim reaper," surrounds him. He looks down at another figure of death which holds an open plastic bag. The tag attached to the bag reads, "Three More Suffocate in Plastic Bags."

MEDIUM:1 drawing : India ink, pencil, and opaque white on off-white grained drawing stock ; 37 x 29 cm. (sheet)

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1953.

CREATOR:

Kuekes, Edward D., 1901-1987, artist.

NOTES:

Title inscribed below image.

Signed, lower right: KUEKES.

Printed on label stapled to image upper left: Winner, The Pulitzer Prize, 1953.

Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.429)

Cartoon commenting on the concern for children''s safety around abandoned iceboxes and

Published in: Cleveland Plain Dealer.

SUBJECTS:

Death--1950-1960.
Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)--1950-1960.
Children--1950-1960.
Saftey--1950-1960.
Bags--1950-1960.
Refrigerators--1950-1960.

FORMAT:

Periodical illustrations American 1950-1960.
Editorial cartoons American 1950-1960.
Drawings American 1950-1960.

PART OF:Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature & Cartoon (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b40835

CONTROL #:swa1994001302/PP





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