"Didn't mother tell you to dance with Miss Jones?", "What, that adolescent?"

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"Didn't mother tell you to dance with Miss Jones?", "What, that adolescent?"

Artist Alan Dunn (American, 1900 - 1974)

Date1926

ClassificationsCartoon

Mediumcrayon

DimensionsObject: 11 15/16 × 9 11/16 in. (30.3 × 24.6 cm) Sheet: 11 15/16 × 9 11/16 in. (30.3 × 24.6 cm)

Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest

Object number1979.1667

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"Miss Jones, take a white paper on the Far East."

"Miss Jones, take a white paper on the Far East."

Alan Dunn

1968

"You know, I never thought I'd live to see the day the Dow-Jones Industrial average broke eight hundred."

"You know, I never thought I'd live to see the day the Dow-Jones Industrial average broke eight hundred."

Alan Dunn

1964

"There, there, sweetheart, tell Mother what there is about tapioca you don't understand."

"There, there, sweetheart, tell Mother what there is about tapioca you don't understand."

Alan Dunn

1939

"That's Dr. Jones, the famous horse-and-buggy doctor."

"That's Dr. Jones, the famous horse-and-buggy doctor."

Alan Dunn

1939

"Oh, what do you care what a lot of bourgeois trades people in a building like this think! Tell 'em I'm your sponsor - anything."

"Oh, what do you care what a lot of bourgeois trades people in a building like this think! Tell 'em I'm your sponsor - anything."

Alan Dunn

1948

"Now you mustn't be offended by what I am about to tell you in my professional capacity."

"Now you mustn't be offended by what I am about to tell you in my professional capacity."

Alan Dunn

1933

"We used to have a Jap, but you can't tell what they're thinking."

"We used to have a Jap, but you can't tell what they're thinking."

Alan Dunn

1931

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

Alan Dunn

1950

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

Alan Dunn

1950

"No, no Jones, leave the curtains open tonight..."

"No, no Jones, leave the curtains open tonight..."

Mary Petty

1927

"Yes, we finally moved to the city. We're on the tenth [pub "fifteenth"] floor - Number 1579. Mother didn't want to be buried in the country."

"Yes, we finally moved to the city. We're on the tenth [pub "fifteenth"] floor - Number 1579. Mother didn't want to be buried in the country."

Alan Dunn

1926

"But what is there to tell?"

"But what is there to tell?"

Alan Dunn

1941

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