Memorial Day Proclamation
Datenot dated
Artist
Clarence Daniel Batchelor
(American cartoonist, 1888–1977)
Illustration CitationDate and place of publication not identified
MediumInk and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 13 1/16 × 12 1/8 in. (33.2 × 30.8 cm)
sheet: 14 1/16 × 14 1/16 in. (35.7 × 35.7 cm)
sheet: 14 1/16 × 14 1/16 in. (35.7 × 35.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980
Object number1980-245
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextWinner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1937, Kansas native C. D. Batchelor contributed political cartoons to various New York City newspapers. This image of a morose personification of America includes ghostly soldiers in the background. The cartoon conforms to one critic's description of Batchelor's work: (his) strong cartons were drawn with...a moralizing viewpoint...with...captions written on scrolls; they have the appearance of documents."
Clarence Reader
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