JACOB BURCK UNCLE SAM POLITICAL CARTOON ORIGINAL ART PAIR.
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Winning Bid:
$118.00
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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 cartoons featuring Uncle Sam. 15x22.25" artboard has mixed media original art showing Burck's Socialist/Communist roots w/Uncle Sam's coattails being tugged in opposite directions by both Capital and Labor. 14.25x22.75" artboard features mixed media original art w/image of Uncle Sam using pair of fountain pens to pick up slips of paper marked "Blame, Hindsight, Waste, Graft" in bowl labeled "China White Paper," which was written at the behest of President Harry Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson and was released in 1949 to attempt to quell administration critics who felt that it was Truman's policy that 'lost' China to Mao Tse-tung and the Communists. Strip of aged tape/tape staining at upper left of art. Both have scattered pencil editorial notations at bottom margin w/newspaper stamps at lower right. Artboards have scattered handling wear/aging/dust soiling and are Fine overall w/VF art.
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