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"Mulroney delighted at John Turner's drunken sexism"

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ca. 1988

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3028542

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John Peter Stacey Pickersgill fonds

Cartoon drawings

"Mulroney delighted at John Turner's drunken sexism"
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Date(s):

ca. 1988

Place:

Ottawa

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher:

Ottawa Citizen

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pen and brush with black India ink, black marker on commercial board
Support 39.500 x 30.200 cm

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Depicted are a series of three successive portrait characterizations of Brian Mulroney and a fourth of John Turner. The first three drawings show a reflective Mulroney - his hands in various positions so as to express his different trains of thought - pondering the past problems he has encountered with certain of his Ministers and the potential effect that their indiscretions might have on his chances for re-election in 1988. The fourth depicts an inebriated John Turner holding a cocktail glass in his left hand, while patting the rear end of an unidentified woman standing beside him, whose back is turned away from the viewer. Here the image refers to John Turner patting the rear end of Iona Campagnola at the 1984 Liberal Leadership Convention

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Artist: Pickersgill, Peter, 1945-

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Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: (Top left image) - recto, in black marker on the image, t. & t.r. to b.r.: "AS P.M. I HAVEN'T ALWAYS / HAD THE SUPPORT / I NEED ... // GRAVEL, / STEVENS, / COTÉ, / MASSE, / FRASER, / BLAIS- / GRENIER, / BISSONNETTE, // THEY'VE ALL / LET ME / DOWN ............."; (Top right image) - in black marker on the image, t.l.: "BUT THERE'S ONE / MAN I CAN / ALWAYS / COUNT / ON!"; (LOWER LEFT IMAGE) - in black marker and pen with black India ink over black marker on the image, t.r.: "HE'S WORKED / TIRELESSLY / SINCE 1984 / TO ENSURE / MY / RE-ELECTION"; (Lower right image) - in pen with black India ink over black marker on the image, t.l.: "SO WHO'S BUYING / LUNCH?"; signed recto, in pen with black India ink over black marker, on the image, b.r.: "PiC"
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political

social

politique

cartoon / dessin humoristique

Brian Mulroney // John Turner // the John Turner public image after 1984

the allusion to John Turner patting the rear end of Iona Campagnola at the 1984 liberal Leadership Convention
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Private

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1996-009 DAP
00006
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Record must be consulted under the supervision of an art archivist

Box [1996-009]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 Item no. assigned by LAC 6

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1996-9-6
Copyright: Peter Pickersgill

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