Existing comment:
(10) "Barry's the captain and if he says this is mainstream, that's good enough for me," 1964.
Published in the New York Herald Tribune, 1964.
India ink, tonal film overlay, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing with paste-ons.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04607 (10)
Cheerful members of the Republican Party look overboard as Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater mans the rudder of a boat in a shallow stream. Despite Goldwater's victory in the California primary, cartoonist John Fischetti (1916-1980) satirized the campaign as going nowhere. Nelson Rockefeller, a Republican moderate, issued a parting shot that if Goldwater were in the mainstream, "we've got a meandering stream." Goldwater carried only six states in his race against President Lyndon Johnson. Fischetti's mature artistic style showed his roots in animation. His use of horizontal space and spare pen and ink style influenced a generation of cartoonists. |