Untitled [wonder if you'd autograph my kid's books]

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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Untitled [wonder if you'd autograph my kid's books]
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Artist/Maker (American, 1912 – 1967)
Datemid 20th century
MediumIndia ink on illustration board
DimensionsComposition: 16 1/2 × 14 1/4 in. (41.9 × 36.2 cm) Sheet: 20 × 15 1/4 in. (50.8 × 38.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Dorothy Pilkington
Object number2008.2.8
Not on view
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Additional Details

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 Partially missing adhesive label at lower center: if you'd [in pencil on sheet] / my kid's books?" [in typeset on label]; Winsor & Newton's Illustration Board circular label on verso at middle center: 30 x 40 THIN / 20 x 30 THIN / [LION] / WINSOR & NEWTON'S / Illustration Board / WINSOR & NEWTON / ..Incorporated.. / New York, N.Y.
Signature Signed at lower right: jamEs / Dugan
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at upper right on side: James Dugan / FROTH / State College / Pa.
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.
"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.
"After the part where you tell them to 'speak now or forever hold their peace'—er—don't pause too long."
Peter Arno
Date: published March 1937
Medium: India ink with graphite on illustration board
Object number: 2008.2.2
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 John Bentham.
Untitled [monkey with organ grinder]
Otto Soglow
Date: before 1975
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Object number: 2008.2.12
Photograph by John Bentham.
They Already Got Yo Kids ("Tricked my wisdom with the system that imprisoned my son")
Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)
Date: 2013
Medium: Acrylic, ink, coffee, and tea on paper
Object number: 2013.2
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.
Long Venice
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879-1880
Medium: Ink on brown paper
Object number: 2025.5
Image Not Available for Nantuckett
Nantuckett
James Penney
Date: 1967
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 2011.3
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
Image Not Available for Seated Figure
Seated Figure
James Kearns
Date: 1958
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Object number: 2003.4.4
Demonstrators Sack USIS Building in Hue: Student demonstrators hurl books out of the United States Information Service building in Hue. The books and furniture were later burned in front of the building.
Demonstrators Sack USIS Building in Hue: Student demonstrators hurl books out of the United States Information Service building in Hue. The books and furniture were later burned in front of the building.
Unknown artist, American
Date: May 1966
Medium: Vintage Associate Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.246