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[Motorist behind billboard to hide from cop]

Artist Alan Dunn (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1951
ClassificationsCartoon
MediumCrayon and ink
DimensionsSheet: 6 3/8 x 12 in. (16.2 x 30.5 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1188
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"Attention, motorists! This is your new aerial traffic check reporting. Situation hopless that is all."
"Attention, motorists! This is your new aerial traffic check reporting. Situation hopless that is all."
Alan Dunn
1958
[Traffic cop being offered bribe by driver of a meat truck]
[Traffic cop being offered bribe by driver of a meat truck]
Alan Dunn
1945
[Cop writing ticket for illegally parked scooter]
[Cop writing ticket for illegally parked scooter]
Alan Dunn
1965
"Don't ask me. Nobody's seen hide nor hair of him since we gave him that kickoff lunch."
"Don't ask me. Nobody's seen hide nor hair of him since we gave him that kickoff lunch."
Alan Dunn
1957
"Know what this road needs? Billboards."
"Know what this road needs? Billboards."
Alan Dunn
circa 1965
[Billboard pasting]
[Billboard pasting]
Alan Dunn
1945
[Billboard pasting]
[Billboard pasting]
Alan Dunn
1945
"It can't miss, J.G.. The author got disillusioned with Communism, escaped from behind the Iron Curtain, came to the United States, lived on a sharecropper's farm in Georgia, spent a year in a state insane asylum, turned to religion, and now is a monk."
"It can't miss, J.G.. The author got disillusioned with Communism, escaped from behind the Iron Curtain, came to the United States, lived on a sharecropper's farm in Georgia, spent a year in a state insane asylum, turned to religion, and now is a monk."
Alan Dunn
1950
[Cover illustration - New Yorker, car and motorcycle cop]
[Cover illustration - New Yorker, car and motorcycle cop]
Alan Dunn
20th century
[Model posing for billboard]
[Model posing for billboard]
Alan Dunn
1937
"These behind-the-scenes tea breaks accomplish a lot more than all those formal conferences, don't you think?"
"These behind-the-scenes tea breaks accomplish a lot more than all those formal conferences, don't you think?"
Alan Dunn
1969
"I suppose there's quite a story behind all this."
"I suppose there's quite a story behind all this."
Alan Dunn
1953
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