Wreckreation
Date1908
Artist
Harry Grant Dart
(American illustrator, 1869–1936)
Illustration CitationPuck, May 27, 1908
MediumCommercial relief process with hand-coloring
Dimensionssheet: 14 5/16 × 20 9/16 in. (36.4 × 52.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1983
Object number1983-140
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextHarry Grant Dart's series of vignettes depicts accidents occurring during various types of recreation.A native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Dart began his career making crayon portraits as advertisements 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.
