Browse Items (57 total)

Travin, V., Look at the big picture, Rutgers, 1969

Poet: Smirnovski, S. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1969

The picture reads: “Our building after the renovation.”
Superintendent has a heart of…

Tags: Art, Fighting Pencil, Irony, Renovation, Satire

Strobridge Lith. Co, Merry Katie Emmett in Chat, an American Boy, Library of Congress, 1895

No description given

Tags: American Boy, Art, Merry Katie Emmett

Mike Peel, Morgan Library and Museum, Morgan Library & Museum, 2017

A photograph of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.

Formed in 1906 to hold the private collection of banker J.P. Morgan, this library…

Tags: 20th Century, Art, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Library and Museum, Music, NY, NYC

Kunnap, V., Nothing you can do, Rutgers, 1968

"Poet: Tumarinson, G. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1968
“Accurate and impartial consideration of complaints from the working popula6on should be an…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Grievances, Protest, Satire, Soviet Union, The Fighting Pencil

Tsvetkov, A., Now nobody can blame me that I treat visitors inconsiderately, Rutgers, 1956

Krokodil [Crocodile] satirical magazine, 1956
Signs: “Sit down please;” “How do you do;” “Please smoke;”
“Good bye;” “All the best to the…

Tags: Art, Bad Management, Cartoons, Crocodile, Magazine, Satire

Semenov, B., Once upon a time there lived an old man and his wife…, Rutgers, 1974

Poet: Smirnovski, S. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1974

1. There once lived an elderly couple
Who peacefully ate their porridge with milk.
When…

Tags: Abuse, Art, Commentary, Domestic Violence, Fighting Pencil

Travin, V., Orders, Rutgers, Continuum, 1981

"Poet: Yefimovski, Y.

He gave orders, many a task,
“Work harder!”—he was bellowing.
But he never left his desk
To check if team was…

Tags: Art, Authoritarian, Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Cartoons, Satire, Soviet Union

Belomlinsky, M., Our department is ahead again!, Rutgers, 1981

"Poet: Yefimovsky, Y. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1981

This road has just been completed,
But it won’t stay smooth for long.
For as the…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Irony, Roads, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

William C. Palmer, Palmer Mural, Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington DC, Library of Congress, 1937

Mail Coach Attacked by Bandits William C. Palmer painted two 7′ x 13’6″ murals for the Ariel Rios Federal Building. “Covered Wagon Attacked by…

Tags: Ariel Rios Federal Building, Art, Palmer Mural, Washington D.C., William C. Palmer

Travin, V., Pigsty, Rutgers, None

"Poet: Yefimovsky, Y. “The Fighting Pencil” group
—Move the cattle operation,
Build a hog pen in this site!
New boss, new consideration.
—He is…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Change, Decision-Making, Satire, The Fighting Pencil