In the Coming Era of Socialism

In the Coming Era of Socialism
In the Coming Era of Socialism

In the Coming Era of Socialism

Date1909
Artist (American illustrator, 1869–1936)
Illustration CitationPuck, July 7, 1909
MediumCommercial relief process with hand-coloring
Dimensionssheet: 14 3/16 × 20 11/16 in. (36 × 52.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-99
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ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextHarry Grant Dart's multi-scene cartoon shows police breaking up a demonstration by capitalists who - in a turn-around of the expected and in the detail characteristic of his work - are demanding their rights from socialists.

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.