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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing [Donald R. Seawall Collection of Pat Oliphant cartoons]

About this Item

Title

  • [Donald R. Seawall Collection of Pat Oliphant cartoons]

Summary

  • Includes 42 political cartoon drawings by Pat Oliphant published in the Denver Post in 1971 and 1972. This selection focuses on the 1972 presidential election, international relations with China and other nations, Watergate surveillance, the Vietnam War, and such leaders as President Richard Nixon, Vice-President Spiro Agnew, AFL-CIO president George Meany, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, and reformer Ralph Nader.

Names

  • Oliphant, Pat, 1935-, artist

Created / Published

  • [1971 or 1972]

Headings

  • -  Nixon, Richard M.--(Richard Milhous),--1913-1994
  • -  International relations--1970-1980
  • -  Political elections--1970-1980
  • -  Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • -  Watergate Affair, 1972-1974

Format Headings

  • Editorial cartoons--American--1970-1980.
  • Ink drawings--1970-1980.

Genre

  • Editorial cartoons--American--1970-1980
  • Ink drawings--1970-1980

Notes

  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Container list: Oliphant.
  • -  Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Pat Oliphant had a 50-year career in the United States, actively working between 1964 and 2014. Born in Australia in 1935, he began working as a staff artist for the Adelaide Advertiser, earning a position on the editorial page by the time he was 22. In 1964, the Denver Post hired him to succeed Paul Conrad. A decade later, he moved to Washington, D.C., to join the staff of the Washington Star in 1975. He remained and worked as an independent artist after the paper folded in 1981. Although he never officially retired, Oliphant published his last cartoon on August 21, 2014.
  • -  Gift; Donald R. Seawall; (DLC/PP-2003:128).

Medium

  • 42 drawings : ink over pencil with paste-ons on chemigraphic paper ; sheets 30 x 45 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 15350 (FM -- B size) [P&P]

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010635047

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Call Number: LOT 15350 (FM -- B size) [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Oliphant, Pat, Artist. Donald R. Seawall Collection of Pat Oliphant cartoons. , 1971. [or 1972] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010635047/.

APA citation style:

Oliphant, P. (1971) Donald R. Seawall Collection of Pat Oliphant cartoons. , 1971. [or 1972] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010635047/.

MLA citation style:

Oliphant, Pat, Artist. Donald R. Seawall Collection of Pat Oliphant cartoons. [or 1972] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2010635047/>.