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La Guardia

Date1934

Illustration CitationOff With Their Heads!, by Peggy Bacon (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934), pages not numbered.

MediumSingle-color lithograph

Dimensionssheet: 15 7/8 × 11 3/8 in. (40.3 × 28.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1985

Object number1985-84

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Label TextA printmaker, illustrator, painter, and writer, Peggy Bacon was known for her humorous etchings and drawings, as well as for her caricatures of prominent personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. In her portrayal of New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, she brought to bear her artistic goal:

“The aim of a caricature is to heighten and intensify to the point of absurdity all the subject's most striking attributes...imparting a spicy and clairvoyant comment
upon the subject's peculiarities.”