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Duncan Macpherson editorial cartoons [graphic material]

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Series

Date:

1958-1988.

Reference:

R5671-3-5-E

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

180643

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Duncan Macpherson fonds

Duncan Macpherson editorial cartoons
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

1958-1988.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1,294 drawings pen and brush and ink and fluorographic wash.
3 watercolours.

Language of material:

English

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Series comprises, primarily, original editorial cartoons by Duncan Macpherson which were published in the Toronto Star. The works examine issues of national, international and provincial interest as well as the local Toronto arena. Federal politicians include Prime Ministers Lester B. Pearson, John Diefenbaker, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Joe Clark and John Turner as well as their most senior Cabinet members. Also parodied are opposition leaders Tommy Douglas, David Lewis, Réal Caouette, Ed Broadbent and Robert Stanfield. Canadian topics of note are federal-provincial relations, defence spending and the military,elections, budgets, social programs and leadership races. American Presidents portrayed include Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Most major international politicians from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s are caricatured. These include Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, European statesmen General Charles de Gaulle, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson, Middle East politicians Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat and Anwar Sadat, and Cuba's Fidel Castro. Macpherson tackled such contentious international political issues as enrivonmental concerns, the oil industry and O.P.E.C., nuclear weapons, foreign aid, apartheid, and the Vietnam War.

Provincial leaders include W.A.C. Bennett, Bill Davis, Leslie Frost, René Lévesque, John Robarts and Joey Smallwood. Provincial coverage encompasses inter-provincial relations, elections and budgets.Some municipal leaders portrayed are David Crombie, Fred Gardiner, Phil Givens, Alan Lamport, Nathan Phillips, and John Sewell. Municipal topics of note are urban development, government spending, election results, administration scandals, zoning by-laws and public transportation.

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Macpherson, Duncan Ian, 1924-1993

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(Electronic) Works have been item-level catalogued in the Minisis-ICON data base.

Source:

Private

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120-080235-7
1987-037 PIC
1987-038 PIC
1988-036 PIC
1992-610 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access is to be provided through an art archivist.

Box [1992-610]

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2000792073 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--2

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Box [1987-037]

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30073;

[Consultation 90 Open]

30075;

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030073 Item no. assigned by LAC 131; 133

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030075 Item no. assigned by LAC 186

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Box [1987-038]

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30106;

[Consultation 90 Open]

30117;

[Consultation 90 Open]

30121;

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030106 Item no. assigned by LAC 336

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030117 Item no. assigned by LAC 562; 570

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030121 Item no. assigned by LAC 647

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