Chartwell Notes

The cartoon collection, as a sub-collection of the Chartwell Collection, has an unusual history - they were all purchased on the same day - election day 1984.

A time of political change in New Zealand, the election of 1984 was marked as the time when long standing Prime Minister Robert Muldoon lost the election to Labour Party candidate Peter Lange.Sensing a change of government, Chartwell Collection founder, Rob Gardiner, began the day by ringing all the major newspaper editors in New Zealand with the request to acquire the cartoon produced by their political cartoonist that day. Of course, the majority of cartoons were yet to be drawn, as the 'black and white artists', as they were known at the time, had to await the outcome of the election later in the day.

The collection, which came together as a result of those calls now represents a major period in NZ political history and highlights the role political, editorial cartoonists have in capturing the mood of a country and distilling major events into powerful visual statements.

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Description

An original editorial cartoon.