WCMA
  • Home
  • Exhibitions & Programs
    • Archive
  • Collaborate
    • Object Lab
    • Rose Object Classroom
    • Reading Room
    • Cocurate
    • Agents for Creative Action
  • [SPACER]
  • Visit
  • Who We Are
    • Director’s Welcome
    • Mission & Vision
    • History
    • Staff
    • Jobs & Internships
  • Collection
    • Featured Acquisitions
    • WALLS
    • Prendergast Archive
    • Public Art
    • Search
  • Make a Gift
  • News & Press
The Williams College Museum of Art makes dynamic art experiences to incite new thinking about art, museums, and the world.

Follow us:

TW
IG
FB
Sign up for our newsletter here.
  • Collections
  • View All Works
  • Explore
  • Exhibitions
  • My Collections
  • Advanced Search
Skip to main content
Collections Menu
My CollectionIIIF Logo IIIF
  • Images(2)

Artist makes himself a peanut butter sandwich

Artist Rube Goldberg (American ; 1883-1970)
Copy Right Holder Rube Goldberg, Inc.
Datec. 1960
Mediumpencil on paper
DimensionsOverall: 8 9/16 x 11 in. (21.8 x 28 cm)
Classification(s)
  • DRAWING
Credit LineGift of George W. George
Terms
  • cartoon
  • contraption
  • artist
  • sandwich
  • text
  • armor
Object number81.24.7
On View
Not on view
Exhibitions
Reflections on a Museum, Art Re: Art
  • Discover More
Professor Butts, taking his morning exercise, kicks himself in the nose and sees a simple idea for cooling a plate of soup
Professor Butts, taking his morning exercise, kicks himself in the nose and sees a simple idea for cooling a plate of soup
Rube Goldberg
c. 1930
They both make the same motions but the atmosphere is slightly different; Old Man Alf of the Alphabet
They both make the same motions but the atmosphere is slightly different; Old Man Alf of the Alphabet
Rube Goldberg
1916
"It's Love That Makes The World Turn Round."
"It's Love That Makes The World Turn Round."
Thomas Nast
November 12, 1870
It Makes Me Think of that Awful Day on the Island (from "2011: SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics)")
It Makes Me Think of that Awful Day on the Island (from "2011: SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics)")
Walton Ford
2011
Powered by eMuseum
This is your path so far:
Collections Search
Works
Artist makes himself a peanut butter sandwich
Explore more paths
  • Visit
  • Exhibitions & Programs
  • Who We Are
  • Collection
  • Collaborate
  • Make a Gift