Skip to main content
Collections Menu

Trick Umbrella

Artist Rube Goldberg (American ; 1883-1970)
Copy Right Holder Rube Goldberg, Inc.
Dateno date
Mediumgraphite | ink | white ink | on paper
DimensionsOverall: 14 1/16 x 18 15/16 in. (35.7 x 48.1 cm)
Classification(s)
  • DRAWING
Credit LineGift of George W. George, Class of 1941
Terms
  • communism
  • China
  • umbrella
  • political cartoon
  • rifle
  • soldier
Object numberM.2004.21.78
Inscribedu.c. in ink: TRICK UMBRELLA; l.r. in image in ink: RUBE/ GOLDBERG.; verso l.l. in pencil: 117[encircled]; verso l.r. in pencil: 57[encircled]
On View
Not on view
A pencil is even harder to keep than an umbrella| Mike & Ike - They Look Alike
A pencil is even harder to keep than an umbrella| Mike & Ike - They Look Alike
Rube Goldberg
c. 1915-1934
Job to Be Done
Job to Be Done
Rube Goldberg
no date
Unrequited Love
Unrequited Love
Rube Goldberg
no date
Eye of the Hurricane
Eye of the Hurricane
Rube Goldberg
no date