Filling the Position

Filling the Position
Filling the Position

Filling the Position

Date1915
Artist (American illustrator and painter, 1871–1956)
Illustration CitationLife, January 14, 1915
MediumInk with gouache on paper
Dimensionssheet: 26 1/2 × 19 in. (67.3 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of John Sloan Memorial Foundation, 1981
Object number1981-11
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextOrson Lowell is best known for cartoons like this one, created for Life magazine.
Life was a humor and general interest magazine from its founding in 1883 until 1936, when Henry Luce bought the magazine and re-launched it with an emphasis photojournalism.






Pirate figure
Orson Lowell
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