"After the part where you tell them to 'speak now or forever hold their peace'—er—don't pause too long."

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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
"After the part where you tell them to 'speak now or forever hold their peace'—er—don't pause too long."
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Artist/Maker (American, 1904 – 1968)
Datepublished March 1937
MediumIndia ink with graphite on illustration board
DimensionsComposition: 12 × 16 3/4 in. (30.5 × 42.5 cm) Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Dorothy Pilkington
Object number2008.2.2
Not on view
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Additional Details

Alternate Titles Untitled (Panicked Bride)
Provenance prior to 1983: Private collection of Walter Pilkington
2008: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Dorothy Pilkington, widow of Walter Pilkington
Markings Black stamp at upper left: COLLEGE HUMOR
Published References "Peter Arno's Side-Show," College Humor, March 1937, p.19.
Signature Recto, lower left (ink): "P.A."
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil at top edge of composition: [arrow pointing left to vertical line] 6 1/2" [arrow pointing right to vertical line] highlight / halftone / go ahead [underlined]
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
"It isn't every student I'd let mark her own examination paper, Miss Dawson."
Peter Arno
Date: published February 1937
Medium: India ink with graphite on illustration board with some white paint
Object number: 2008.2.4
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
"All right—I take the key, go to your hotel, go to the twelfth floor and walk down one flight, and go in your room and wait till you come—and then what do I do?"
Peter Arno
Date: published April 1937
Medium: India ink wash in black on illustration board
Object number: 2008.2.1
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
"Gosh, I forgot to look at your teeth, didn't I?"
Peter Arno
Date: published March 1937
Medium: India ink with graphite on illlustration board
Object number: 2008.2.3
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Untitled
James Dugan
Date: c. 1933-1937
Medium: India ink on illustration board
Object number: 2008.2.9
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Untitled [wonder if you'd autograph my kid's books]
James Dugan
Date: mid 20th century
Medium: India ink on illustration board
Object number: 2008.2.8
Photo by John Bentham.
Untitled [monkey with organ grinder]
Otto Soglow
Date: before 1975
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Object number: 2008.2.12
Design for the cover of "Catholic Anthology"
Design for the cover of "Catholic Anthology"
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1914-1915
Medium: India ink and graphite on paper
Object number: 1994.95
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Good Lord! How Long Have you Been Standing There?
Ned Hilton
Date: c. 1930-1950
Medium: Crayon with ink wash on paper
Object number: 2008.2.11
Zhu (Bambou, Bamboo)
Zhu (Bambou, Bamboo)
André Kneib
Date: 2007
Medium: Ink on paper, mounted on linen over wooden board
Object number: 2008.8
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Long Venice
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879-1880
Medium: Ink on brown paper
Object number: 2025.5
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
Iran's Airforce consists of 340 planes and 100,000 men. According to the last report of the U.S. military attaché in Tehran, it too is inoperational for lack of spare parts and maintenance. Cobra helicopters at the Isfahan base. There are no more American technicians to maintain them in good condition.
Abbas Attar
Date: November, 1977
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2025.30.8
Untitled (Design on the back of an envelope)
Untitled (Design on the back of an envelope)
Wyndham Lewis
Date: early 20th century
Medium: India ink and watercolor on envelope
Object number: 1994.127