And thus all day the gaffers talk, while Jinks goes scorching 'round the block
Date1921
Artist
Ralph Barton
(American cartoonist and caricaturist, 1891–1931)
Illustration Citation"At Hay Center," by Walt Mason, in Judge, February 5, 1921
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensions11 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (28.6 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1991
Object number1991-159
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextRalph Barton was among the most popular caricaturists of the 1920s. Here he illustrates a poem by Walt Mason, known as the poet of the people for his homespun stories and poems. The visual parodies mock both urban and rural characters to a grotesque degree, manipulating distortion of the figures for satiric purposes. Barbara Schwinn Jordan
1948