1944 · [np
by Russell, Bruce
[np, 1944. Original broadside drawing in black ink on artist board, 12" x 17." Signed in ink at lower right corner. Inscribed at bottom margin: "To E.A. Brinstool with my best regards, Bruce Russell." Compositor's instructions in pencil; a few areas of white ink for touch-up. Near Fine.
Russell, lead cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times from 1934 for nearly thirty years, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons in 1946. This cartoon is a parody of the James Earle Fraser sculpture, "End of the Trail." It depicts a defeated Hitler riding an exhausted Germany to its death. Brinstool was a noted Western historian and cowboy poet. Both were (truncated)
Russell, lead cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times from 1934 for nearly thirty years, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons in 1946. This cartoon is a parody of the James Earle Fraser sculpture, "End of the Trail." It depicts a defeated Hitler riding an exhausted Germany to its death. Brinstool was a noted Western historian and cowboy poet. Both were (truncated)