Officer Quack (new on the force): "Why do you wear that mask?" Stranger: "Why you chump, I'm a burglar." Officer Quack: "Oh -- I beg your pardon, I suppose that makes it alright!"

© Estate of Walt Kuhn. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction…
© Estate of Walt Kuhn
Officer Quack (new on the force): "Why do you wear that mask?" Stranger: "Why you chump, I'm a burglar." Officer Quack: "Oh -- I beg your pardon, I suppose that makes it alright!"
© Estate of Walt Kuhn. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Officer Quack (new on the force): "Why do you wear that mask?" Stranger: "Why you chump, I'm a burglar." Officer Quack: "Oh -- I beg your pardon, I suppose that makes it alright!"

Datec. 1905
Artist (American painter, 1877–1949)
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 14 3/8 × 11 5/16 in. (36.5 × 28.7 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1985
Object number1985-17
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextKnown today primarily for his instrumental role in the Armory Show of 1913, Walt Kuhn also created comics for newspapers and humor magazines to supplement his income as an artist. This cartoon was probably part of a bird-themed series that he drew at times between 1905 and 1914.
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