[Tom of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, full-length portrait, facing right] (2024)

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• Title: [Tom of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, full-length portrait, facing right]
• Creator(s):Barbera, Joseph, artist
• Related Names:
  Hanna, William, 1910-2001.
• Date Created/Published: [between 1940 and 1957]
• Medium: 1 drawing : graphite and blue pencil, color ; 26.6 x 31.8 cm (sheet)
• Summary:Model sheet providing guidance on how to draw Tom. The Tom and Jerry animated cartoons, drawn and produced between 1940 and 1957 for MGM by the team of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, featured the gray cat Tom in perpetual pursuit of the impish mouse Jerry. Barbera was the animator, while Hanna directed and provided the technical support.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-06460 (digital file from original drawing)
• Rights Advisory: Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions...,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html)
  
• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 .150a [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Caption label from exhibit Cartoon America: This model sheet for the animated character Tom showed artists working for Hanna-Barbera Studio how to draw the cat consistently, from the tips of his ears to the end of his toes. Early animators Joseph Barbera and William Hanna formed the partnership that produced the Tom and Jerry animated cartoons at MGM Studios from around 1940 until 1957. The award-winning series featured the gray cat Tom perpetually pursuing his mischievous co-star Jerry, a brown mouse. More than 150 shorts chronicled the pair chasing and teasing one another, ending up only occasionally as friends.
  • Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
  • Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
  • Unprocessed in WOOD/Hanna-Barbera.112a
  • Sources: Solomon, Enchanted drawings, p. 110, 140; Don Markstein's Toonopedia [online] ljr
• Subjects:
  • Cats--1940-1960.
• Format:
  • Cartoons (Commentary)--American--1940.
  • Drawings--American--Color--1940.
• Collections:
  • Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
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• Rights Advisory: Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-06460 (digital file from original drawing)
• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 .150a [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing : graphite and blue pencil, color ; 26.6 x 31.8 cm (sheet)

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• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 .150a [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing : graphite and blue pencil, color ; 26.6 x 31.8 cm (sheet)

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