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Memorial Day Proclamation

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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)

Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980

Object number1980-245

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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."