So you wanted to be a republic, eh?
Date1939
Artist
Rollin Kirby
(American cartoonist, 1875–1952)
Illustration CitationNew York Wolrd-Telegram and syndicated. Appeared in Dayton Daily News, February 12, 1939.
MediumCrayon and gouache on textured paper
Dimensionscomposition: 11 13/16 × 15 9/16 in. (30 × 39.5 cm)
sheet: 14 5/16 × 17 7/8 in. (36.4 × 45.4 cm)
sheet: 14 5/16 × 17 7/8 in. (36.4 × 45.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980
Object number1980-19
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Label TextIllinois native Rollin Kirby worked as a cartoonist for several New York newspapers, becoming the nation's primary political cartoonist after World War I. Here he refers to the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, as Hitler and Mussolini confront a woman representing the Spanish loyalists.
