When the sourdoughs at the bar weren't talking about the local women, they were ridiculing Dr. Cook's book
Date1955
Artist
Gregory D'Alessio
(American cartoonist, illustrator, and painter, 1904–1993)
Illustration Citation"The Six Slaphappy Sourdoughs on Mt. McKinley," by Stuart Mclver, in Saga, November 1955
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 8 × 14 5/16 in. (20.3 × 36.4 cm)
sheet: 14 7/8 × 22 in. (37.8 × 55.9 cm)
sheet: 14 7/8 × 22 in. (37.8 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-142
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this scene, a group of hapless and unprepared climbers are planning an ascent of Mount McKinley. The madcap mood of the characters is summarized in the story's summary: "bolstered by booze, an American flag and Klondike pride, they set out to conquer North America's highest peak without an ice axe or even a rope."Gregory d'Alessio began his career in newspaper illustration and then turned primarily to cartooning in the 1930's. His work often appeared in The New Yorker and Esquire. He was also a long-standing teacher at the Art Students League in New York, where he had studied.
Henrietta McCaig Starrett
1930
