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"All right Sam I really never missed it-but I like your spirit"

YOUNG, Art Young, Art (illustrator)

Price: $300.00

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Description: Political cartoon. Pen and ink on paper. Page measures 11.5" x 8.5".

Comments: Original drawing of a crying Uncle Sam handing over to a "fined profiteer" a sack of money labeled "returned with apologies, U.S." Penciled at bottom is "All right Sam I really never missed it-but I like your spirit". An explanation is also written: "A bill is introduced to give back the fines of the war profiteers found guilty under the Lever law. As for the scoundrels who thought that the war was "commercial"-Let them stay in jail a while longer. Includes original editing notes. Art Young (1866-1943) was an American political cartoonist based in New York City and best known for his drawings and editorial contributions to the Socialist monthly magazine, The Masses (1911-1917). Young started out drawing for mainstream news and humor publications, earning a position at the Chicago Interocean where he worked with the well-known political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Inspired by Nast%u2019s work but suspicious of his Nativist politics, the artist quickly embraced political cartoons as an effective form of political activism, particularly as his disillusionment with contemporary social and artistic conditions grew. In fact, it was Young who coined the term "Ashcan School" in 1915 to disparage the lack of social engagement in the work of his fellow artists. In contrast, Young's drawings for The Masses and other publications starkly and often scathingly criticized the economic injustices and racial and sexual discrimination that, for him and his Socialist peers, characterized the United States' capitalist society. His controversial and often anti-war cartoons got him into legal trouble on several occasions, including a charge of conspiracy to obstruct enlistment filed under the Espionage Act in 1917. Art Young's legacy lies in the influence of his drawings on both his contemporaries and a younger generation of socially- and politically-engaged artists. This drawing is a wonderful example of the artist's work.

Binding: unbound
Condition: very good
Type: Maps & Prints

Book ID: 203402

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