JACOB BURCK POLITICAL CARTOON ORIGINAL ART PAIR.
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Winning Bid:
$129.80
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Bidding Ended:
Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
Jacob Burck (1907-1982) started his political cartooning career drawing for the "Communist Daily Worker." After a disillusioning trip to the Soviet Union that exposed to Burck Stalin's cult of personality and other Stalinist deficiencies, he undertook a career as a political cartoonist for the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch." In 1938 he moved to his permanent home at the "Chicago Sun-Times," where he worked until his retirement in 1972. The recipient of the 1941 Pulitzer Prize, he also won the first Society of Professional Journalists Award (aka the Sigma Delta Chi Award), for editorial cartooning. Most of his original art was destroyed in a fire that also claimed Burck's life in 1982, making cartoon original art by Burck much more uncommon compared to that of his contemporaries. Offered here are pair of 1950s cartoons showing Burck's continued focus on corruption and the poor. 14-3/8x22.75" artboard features mixed media original art for 1955 cartoon showing the Speaker of the Illinois Legislature, Warren Wood holding large bottle of "Old Pal" whiskey as "West Side Bloc" customer sits at bar. Some glue staining at upper right corner of artboard. 14-1/8x22.75" artboard features mixed media original art for 1957 cartoon showing Chicago being slowly swallowed up by "Advancing Glacier" labeled "Neglect - Indifference - Dirt - Squalor." Both have scattered pencil editorial notations at bottom. Artboards have scattered handling wear/aging/dust soiling and are Fine overall w/VF to Exc. art.
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