Existing comment:
(100) Vandal in Victory, Vandal in Defeat, ca. 1918.
Drawn for the New York World.
Crayon and opaque white over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-06575 (100)
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Rollin Kirby (1875-1952) drew a World War I German soldier looting and pillaging a European village. The war left communities such as Amiens, Verdun, and Lille devastated by occupation, the relative stagnation of trench warfare along the front, and powerful weapons on both sides. Kirby wrote, "what art there is in cartooning is the art of driving the message home," a skill at which he excelled. Kirby, one of the top editorial cartoonists after World War I, worked for both the New York World and the New York Post. His strong use of crayon influenced a generation of cartoonists. |