Theodore Roosevelt / I am not going to be governor.

© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reprod…
© Artist or Artist's Estate
Theodore Roosevelt / I am not going to be governor.
© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Theodore Roosevelt / I am not going to be governor.

Date1912
Artist (Swedish-American artist, illustrator, and cartoonist, 1885–1948)
Illustration CitationInscription indicates this was made for the Morning Sun. Date of publication not identified.
MediumInk, lithographic pencil, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 21 3/4 × 14 3/4 in. (55.2 × 37.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Valentine Cesare, 1992
Object number1992-46
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextOscar Cesare was a Swedish-born American caricaturist, painter, draftsman and editorial cartoonist. By 1911, after studying in Paris, he was living in New York City, where he worked at several publications, including The New York Times, throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

This drawing refers to Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 campaign for the Presidency on the Bull Moose Party ticket.