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Ahem—Those jokes about absent minded professors by Ted Key — VisualArtsDB

Ahem—Those jokes about absent minded professors

Ahem—Those jokes about absent minded professors

1955

Medium: Pen and black ink and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 27.9 × 21.4 cm (11 × 8 7/16 in.)
Genre: drawings (visual works)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)graphitepen and ink drawingsprints and drawingblack inkwatercolorComicspaper (fiber product)

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