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Photo, Print, Drawing Waiting for Reagan / Oliphant.

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Title

  • Waiting for Reagan / Oliphant.

Summary

  • Editorial cartoon shows five menacing looking vultures (labeled "The New Right") huddled together on a branch. The cartoonist's small penguin, Punk, says, "Mr. Reagan was hoping for a nice parakeet ..." The cartoon draws it's inspiration from Thomas Nast's drawing of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall ring as vultures. The New Right was the term used to describe the conservative wing of the Republican Party that traced its roots to the Barry Goldwater presidential campaign in 1964. By 1980, it's strength had grown to the point that it was instrumental in the election of Ronald Reagan. In 1982, however, at a conference of New Right organizations held in Washington, there was considerable criticism that Reagan had not lived up to his promises.

Names

  • Oliphant, Pat, 1935-, artist

Created / Published

  • c1982 August.

Headings

  • -  Reagan, Ronald
  • -  Conservatism--United States--1980-1990
  • -  Vultures--1980-1990

Format Headings

  • Editorial cartoons--American--1980-1990.
  • Ink drawings--American--1980-1990.

Genre

  • Editorial cartoons--American--1980-1990
  • Ink drawings--American--1980-1990

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Caption label from exhibit Cartoon America: Pat Oliphant captures President Ronald Reagan's political plight in the summer of 1982 in this dramatic cartoon. The Moral Majority and other rightist groups publicly criticized Reagan for what they perceived as his neglect of social issues important to conservatives. Inspired by Thomas Nast's depiction of the infamous Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall cronies as vultures, Oliphant pictures Reagan's critics, "The New Right," as five menacing, vulture-like creatures, out on a limb. One of the great draftsmen in the field, Oliphant combines boldly rendered forms and dramatic perspective in this witty allusion to his artistic predecessor. For more information about his career and work, see Oliphant's Anthem.
  • -  Inscribed in ink: For Art with my best Pat Oliphant.
  • -  Copyright, 1982, by Universal Press Syndicate.
  • -  Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
  • -  Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
  • -  Unprocessed in WOOD/Oliphant.
  • -  Sources: Washington post, July 28, 1982, p. A5 ljr

Medium

  • 1 drawing : ink with opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 28.5 x 44.3 cm (sheet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2006678635

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-10609 (digital file from original drawing)

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication restricted. For more information see “Patrick Oliphant,” https://loc.gov/rr/print/res/792_olip.html
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-10609 (digital file from original drawing)
  • Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P]
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Oliphant, Pat, Artist. Waiting for Reagan / Oliphant. United States, ca. 1982. August. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2006678635/.

APA citation style:

Oliphant, P. (ca. 1982) Waiting for Reagan / Oliphant. United States, ca. 1982. August. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2006678635/.

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Oliphant, Pat, Artist. Waiting for Reagan / Oliphant. August. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2006678635/>.