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“You can’t miss it. A big heap of stones, Eightieth Street and Fifth Avenue, just south of the Museum.”
“You can’t miss it. A big heap of stones, Eightieth Street and Fifth Avenue, just south of the Museum.”

“You can’t miss it. A big heap of stones, Eightieth Street and Fifth Avenue, just south of the Museum.”

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1968
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 10 × 11 3/8 in. (25.4 × 28.9 cm) Sheet: 10 × 11 3/8 in. (25.4 × 28.9 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1372
"Then turn west from Second Avenue into Forty-ninth Street. About a hundred feet west of Fifth, you'll come to Rockefeller Plaza. They'll know."
"Then turn west from Second Avenue into Forty-ninth Street. About a hundred feet west of Fifth, you'll come to Rockefeller Plaza. They'll know."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"Comrade, we've just thought of another Russian first. On your fifth orbit of you're to leave the capsule and walk the dog."
"Comrade, we've just thought of another Russian first. On your fifth orbit of you're to leave the capsule and walk the dog."
Alan Dunn
1966
"I'm sorry, but Doctor is very busy today, and I'm afraid we can't work you in for 'just sniffles'."
"I'm sorry, but Doctor is very busy today, and I'm afraid we can't work you in for 'just sniffles'."
Alan Dunn
1970
"You just can't trust them. Now they're trying to be nicer than we are."
"You just can't trust them. Now they're trying to be nicer than we are."
Alan Dunn
1955
"I think I'll skip breakfast and lunch, [Marie,] and just have a Martini - And, by the way, say 'Veuillez, madame?' and not 'Vaulez?' - I don't want people to think I can't afford to have you use the subjuntive - "
"I think I'll skip breakfast and lunch, [Marie,] and just have a Martini - And, by the way, say 'Veuillez, madame?' and not 'Vaulez?' - I don't want people to think I can't afford to have you use the subjuntive - "
Alan Dunn
1948
"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
"This is just the tip of the iceberg. That's just the tip of the ice-berg. Can't we just have the news?"
"This is just the tip of the iceberg. That's just the tip of the ice-berg. Can't we just have the news?"
Alan Dunn
1974
"I can't say I like the way Sergeant Smith is teaching the South Vietnamese to take over!"
"I can't say I like the way Sergeant Smith is teaching the South Vietnamese to take over!"
Alan Dunn
1968
"Why can't they design a museum that doesn't have to be explained?"
"Why can't they design a museum that doesn't have to be explained?"
Alan Dunn
1966
Heap Big Chief Mouldy-Horse and his Family, Early 1920's
Heap Big Chief Mouldy-Horse and his Family, Early 1920's
Walt Kuhn
no date
Do I have to understand it? Can’t I just enjoy it?”
Do I have to understand it? Can’t I just enjoy it?”
Alan Dunn
1959
"She goes right on just as if Paris hadn't stabilized the neckline! Trouble is Paris can't police it."
"She goes right on just as if Paris hadn't stabilized the neckline! Trouble is Paris can't police it."
Alan Dunn
1960