I jumped clean over the fire
Date1903
Artist
Rollin Kirby
(American cartoonist, 1875–1952)
Illustration Citation"The Mule Driver and the Garrulous Mute", by Rex E. Beach, in McClure's Magazine, November 1903
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 16 5/8 × 18 13/16 in. (42.2 × 47.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-546
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextA native of Illinois, Rollin Kirby studied art in New York and Paris. He was a leading cartoonist for the New York Evening Mail, New York World and the New York Post and won the Pulitzer Prize for cartooning in 1921, 1924 and 1928. He also illustrated fiction, and for this story he depicted a Western tale about prospectors in the Arizona territory whose occasional criminal activities invite the attention of the military.
John Sloan
c. 1911-12
