Checkmate, Gentlemen
Date1920
Artist
Boardman Robinson
(American painter and illustrator, 1876–1952)
Illustration CitationThe Liberator, February 1920
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 13 9/16 × 17 7/16 in. (34.4 × 44.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hollon W. Farr, 1975
Object number1975-153
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin at left, holds (from left to right) President Woodrow Wilson, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of England, and Premier GeorgesClemenceau of France in check, likely referring to the successful establishment of the Communist government in 1919. Boardman Robinson, like many liberals, staunchly supported Communism until the Moscow-Berlin non-aggression pact of 1939 disillusioned them.
