Existing comment:
(6) World of Creepers, 1907.
Published in Life, November 14, 1907.
Ink wash and opaque white.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04662 (6)
Art Young (1866-1943) published this drawing in Life magazine with the title "This World of Creepers; Afraid of Themselves and of Others, Afraid of the Almighty, of Life and of Death." He later identified it as one of his best, describing the image as, "the crawling, cringing horde of human beings afraid to stand up and call their souls their own." Young drew for a wide variety of publications that included the Saturday Evening Post as well as the socialist periodical The Masses. His left wing views were featured in the humor magazine Life, which, for a time, embraced support for socialism. |