Drawing
- Title:
- Hey...Wait for Me Fellas!
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2008.042.02
- Creator:
- Murphy, Bob
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- circa 1970
- Description:
- Political cartoon, "Hey...Wait for Me Fellas!", by Bob Murphy, for the Union Leader, Manchester, NH, c. 1970. Ink on paper. Titled above image, " 'HEY...WAIT FOR ME FELLAS!' " Depicts man identified as "CHARLIE / WHITTEMORE" with "SALES TAX" in hand chasing "YE OLD / ANTI-TAX / BANDWAGON", which holds Meldrim Thomson and Roger Crowley, as well as other tax protesters holding signs. Signed in ink, bottom right corner of image, "BOB / MURPHY". Notes in ink in bottom margin: "Reduce to 7 1/2" TOP TO BOTTOM / MONDAY EDITORIAL U-L / 3 glossies please". Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-22.7 W-14.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Acquired by the donor from the artist, political cartoonist Bob Murphy, at the Manchester Union Leader in the early 1970s.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of John Douglas Peters and Christine K. Consales
- Subjects:
- Political cartoons, Taxes, Tax payers, Sales taxes, Bandwagons, Political campaigns
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