Rudolph Dirks at the Independent Artists' Dinner
Datec. 1920
Artist
Norman Jacobsen
(American artist, 1885–1944)
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionssheet: 4 × 3 1/8 in. (10.2 × 7.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-108.7
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextRudolph Dirks (1877–1968) is best known as the cartoonist who invented The Katzenjammer Kids, a long-running comic strip that launched in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal in 1897. Dirks also painted, exhibiting pictures with the Society of Independent Artists between 1917 and 1922.