Why Not Give Real Labor a Chance to Parade?

Why Not Give Real Labor a Chance to Parade?
Why Not Give Real Labor a Chance to Parade?

Why Not Give Real Labor a Chance to Parade?

Date1911
Artist (American illustrator, 1869–1936)
Illustration CitationPuck, August 30, 1911
MediumCommercial relief process with hand-coloring
Dimensionscomposition: 10 9/16 × 17 9/16 in. (26.8 × 44.6 cm)
sheet: 14 1/4 × 20 15/16 in. (36.2 × 53.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-101
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ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn a commentary on union politics, Harry Grant Dart's multi-scene cartoon shows laborers observing a demonstration by workers from the journalism, illustration, and advertising profressions with numerous banners announcing their identity and demands.

A native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Dart began his career making crayon portraits as advertisments for the National Crayon Company. In the mid-1890s, he moved to the Boston Herald and then on to the New York World, which deployed him to Cuba as a sketch artist. He later became art editor for The World, where he called on his experience as a free-lance cartoonist to create the comic The Explorigator. The 1908 strip - about children flying an airship around the world - was designed to compete with Little Nemo by Winsor McCay in the New York Herald. It was short-lived but was the springboard for Dart's later work for Life and Judge; his cartoons often featured futuristic scenarios.
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