Truth Easter '97
Date1897
Artist
Henry Mayer
(American illustrator, caricaturist, and etcher, 1868–1953)
Illustration CitationAdvertisement for Truth, April 1897
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 20 15/16 × 14 1/16 in. (53.2 × 35.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-47
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextHenry Mayer immigrated to the US from Germany. He often did illustrations and cartoons referring to the current scene and social themes. In 1913, he turned to animation, and then to a career in the film business (where he was known as Hy Mayer) as a writer, animator, director and producer through the mid-1920s.Truth magazine began publishing in 1881 as a weekly magazine and changed to a monthly in 1898. Its logo was "The Brightest of Weeklies". Initially a competitor of the society paper Town Topics, it covered the theater, sports, and other entertainment of the leisured class. Editorial changes then turned Truth more toward humor and cartoons before its demise in 1905.
