Kansas Samurai

Artist Roger Yukata Shimomura (American, born 1939)

Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

MediumInk on paper

DimensionsImage and sheet: 44 1/2 × 30 inches (113.03 × 76.2 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund

Object number2024.9.169

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DescriptionBlack and white drawing or proof for Kansas Samurai. Head of a man in three-quarter profile facing left. He wears a black wig. He wears round glasses, a mustache and short beard. He holds a sword hilt in his proper right hand. The curved sword extends up the left edge of the page. The background has outlines of cartoon figures drawn in black: counterclockwise from the lower right: a profile of Goofy facing right; Donald Duck facing right; a back view of Dick Tracy in a brimmed hat facing left; the profiles of two men I don’t recognize; and Popeye.Provenance

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