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[Fountain of the Planets, person with umbrella]
[Fountain of the Planets, person with umbrella]

[Fountain of the Planets, person with umbrella]

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1964
ClassificationsCartoon
MediumCrayon and ink
DimensionsSheet: 7 11/16 x 12 1/16 in. (19.6 x 30.6 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1518
"Nixon's scheduled a photographic flyby of our planet for someone in the seventies. That doesn't give us much chance to spruce up."
"Nixon's scheduled a photographic flyby of our planet for someone in the seventies. That doesn't give us much chance to spruce up."
Alan Dunn
1970
"I figure it would take a million astronauts ten million years to move us, stone by stone, to Planet Earth."
"I figure it would take a million astronauts ten million years to move us, stone by stone, to Planet Earth."
Alan Dunn
1970
"Frankly, Miss Plackett, you have a slight overlapping of the lunar returns, but cheer up and this goes for all you Capricorns. You have Saturn conjunct Mercury, which deepens the mind, and you have Venus, the love planet in trine with Pluto, which really gives you the go-ahead provided, of course, the new earth satellite doesn't come along and gum things up."
"Frankly, Miss Plackett, you have a slight overlapping of the lunar returns, but cheer up and this goes for all you Capricorns. You have Saturn conjunct Mercury, which deepens the mind, and you have Venus, the love planet in trine with Pluto, which really gives you the go-ahead provided, of course, the new earth satellite doesn't come along and gum things up."
Alan Dunn
1957
"I guess ours isn't the only planet having its troubles."
"I guess ours isn't the only planet having its troubles."
Alan Dunn
1960
[Drilling holes in model of planet]
[Drilling holes in model of planet]
Alan Dunn
1959
"Look, dear, I've tried to be less of a non-person and more of a mother. As if that weren't enough, now you want relevance."
"Look, dear, I've tried to be less of a non-person and more of a mother. As if that weren't enough, now you want relevance."
Alan Dunn
1969
"One belief is that every person is inhabited by a spirit, or ko, which goes travelling while the human body is asleep. If a man should be awakened suddenly - so the belief is- the Ko might not have time to get back into its body and would get even by going around causing trouble. So the people believe a man should be allowed to sleep until he wakes up of his own accord." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to New Caledonia.
"One belief is that every person is inhabited by a spirit, or ko, which goes travelling while the human body is asleep. If a man should be awakened suddenly - so the belief is- the Ko might not have time to get back into its body and would get even by going around causing trouble. So the people believe a man should be allowed to sleep until he wakes up of his own accord." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to New Caledonia.
Alan Dunn
1943
"She's a perfect saint, but, of course, he's more of a person."
"She's a perfect saint, but, of course, he's more of a person."
Alan Dunn
1963
"If you want to know what a quassar is. I'd say you've come to the wrong person."
"If you want to know what a quassar is. I'd say you've come to the wrong person."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"She made it over into a nursery where any normal person would have had a gun room."
"She made it over into a nursery where any normal person would have had a gun room."
Alan Dunn
1933
A mail-carrier is the most innocent-looking person in the world.
A mail-carrier is the most innocent-looking person in the world.
Alan Dunn
1931
[Beggar in fountain]
[Beggar in fountain]
Alan Dunn
circa 1965