Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Cartoon with three frames. Left, an explanation and key to center frame. Center, absurd invention to retrieve soap. Right, panel labeled "Foolish Questions, No. 44, 106", showing man washing hair over a basin.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Rube Goldberg, American, 1883 – 1970
- Date
- 1963
- Credit Line
- Gift of Rube Goldberg
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, graphite on cream illustration board
- Dimensions
- 17.5 × 51.5 cm (6 7/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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