Existing comment:
(32) Baseball Game, June 11, 1895.
Drawn for Judge magazine.
Ink over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03374 (32)
Founder of the Grotesque School of Caricature, which exaggerated not only facial features but bodies as well, Eugene Zimmerman (1862- 1935) portrays "hillbillies" in this cartoon, playing baseball with varying degrees of skill. A dog, a duck, and a chicken enliven the proceedings. Cartoons that exaggerated racial, ethnic, and social stereotypes were popular in such weekly illustrated journals as Puck and Judge toward the end of the nineteenth century. An immigrant from Switzerland, Zimmerman ran a correspondence cartooning school and drew cartoons for several magazines. |