Existing comment:
(4) From Ever Darkening Clouds, ca. 1944.
Published in the Baltimore Sun.
Crayon, ink brush, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-07517 (4)F
A giant skeletal arm reaches down from dark clouds labeled "Air War" to clutch the prone form of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in this World War II cartoon by Edmund Duffy (1899-1962). Not showing Hitler as brutally invincible, Duffy depicts the stricken tyrant peering upward, fearful of deadly air attacks. In the background, bombs fall from the turbulent sky and a building flying the swastika lies in ruins. Duffy employs his signature style of heavily outlined forms as a means of boldly and graphically sounding the death knell for Hitler. |