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TITLE:  The Darwin club

CALL NUMBER:  SWANN - no. 1115 (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-88147 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright Office.

SUMMARY:  Inside a grandly decorated men's club distinguished-looking, elderly gentlemen interact with monkeys. One sits on a mantle, bonding with four monkeys. A monkey smokes a cigar and holds a newspaper with a bag of peanuts at his feet. One monkey, a waiter, brings a drink to a man reading a newspaper. Paintings of monkeys hang on the walls.

MEDIUM:  1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with gray wash, and Chinese white on illustration board ; 38.6 x 32.4 cm. (sheet)

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1915 Mar. 18 [publication date]

CREATOR:

Irvin, Rea, 1881-1972, artist.

NOTES:

No copyright information found with item.

Signed, lower left: Rea / Irvin.

Stamped on verso: Appeared in No. 1690. Dated Mar 18 1915.

The drawing is one from the series, "Clubs We Do Not Care To Join."

Title and series inscribed below image

Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1044)

Published in: Life, March 18, 1915.

Published in: The image of America in caricature & cartoon / Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Fort Worth : The Museum, 1975, p. 119.

Exhibited: Cartoonists Guild, "The Art in Cartooning," 1975; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, "The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon," 1976.

SUBJECTS:

Animals in human situations--1910-1920.
Clubs--1910-1920.
Evolution--1910-1920.
Monkeys--1910-1920.

FORMAT:

Cartoons (Commentary) American 1910-1920.
Drawings American 1910-1920.
Periodical illustrations American 1910-1920.

PART OF:  Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature & cartoon (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b34580 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b34580

CONTROL #:  2009616892

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