Heywood Broun

© Estate of Peggy Bacon. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproducti…
© Estate of Peggy Bacon
Heywood Broun
© Estate of Peggy Bacon. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Heywood Broun

Date1930
Artist (American painter, printmaker, author, 1895–1987)
Illustration CitationAlternate version appeared in Off With Their Heads!, by Peggy Bacon (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934)
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 11 × 15 3/8 in. (27.9 × 39.1 cm)
sheet: 13 × 17 5/8 in. (33 × 44.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1988
Object number1988-18
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ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBroun was a New York journalist who began his career as a sports writer, became a significant drama critic, and wrote editorials targeting injustice. He also ran for office as a Socialist, married feminist Ruth Hale, and was a member of the famed Algonquin Round Table.