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...London Punch published a personification of the U. S. (called Brother Jonathan) as a young mischievous fellow with his thumb to his nose. In the U. S. the first cartoon of Uncle Sam appeared in the New York Lantern, comic weekly, of March 13, 1852 (see cut). The artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas...
Scallawaggery received its punishment in a Chicago court last week. Some 20 years ago one Peter Grimes broke his leg at Waterloo, Iowa. He became young Dr. Joseph Ambrose Jerger's first case. Dr. Jerger mended the leg with metal plates and, a good artist, scratched his name on the plates. His fee was $500. Peter Grimes did not pay. Pleading poverty, he disappeared...
...battlefield as a background. There were modern British soldiers, gas masks, hand grenades and other impedimenta and it bore the imposing title "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?'' It brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist Symons submitted another this year. It was called "My Lord I Meet in Every London Lane and Street." It included the figures of Jesus, St. Peter, St. John, the Holy Ghost, a perspective view of Tottenham Court Road, a steam roller, a baby Austin, a motorcycle, and about 100 assorted...
Howard Cook, an Englishman, is responsible for some of the most interesting work on display. In particular, his "Canyons" is a very capable piece of etching, and quite as forcible is his impression of "Skyscrapers." John Nash, also an English artist, concentrates more on the design, abstracting the subject matter to fit this composition, and has succeeded in making some very pleasing small etchings. A head by Pechstein is the only blatantly modern piece of the English display...
...Rockwell Kent whose four drawings are in his usual striking style. One, a lithograph entitled "Pinnacle" combines softness with great power, and is the best of the four, although "The End", a woodcut, has a great deal of force. Louis Lozowick contributes more drawings than any one other artist, and his work is very capable. His lithographs are of such scenes as building construction, trains, bridges, and ports. Making use of the full range of light effects which his medium allows, he turns his subjects into delightful black and white near-abstractions which show only the idyllic side...