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• Collection: Goldstein Foundation Collection--Prints and Drawings

• Title: Europe 1916 / Boardman Robinson.
• Creator(s): Robinson, Boardman, 1876-1952, artist
• Date Created/Published: 1916.
• Medium: 1 drawing on paper : crayon, india ink and opaque white ; sheet 48.5 x 68 cm.
• Summary: Cartoon shows Death riding an emaciated donkey and leading it toward a precipice by dangling a carrot, "victory," from a stick.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-30754 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC4-3901 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-119290 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Call Number: Goldstein, no. 1648 (D size) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Caption label from exhibit of digital copy in "Swann Gallery": Commentary on World War I. American artist Boardman Robinson depicts the figure of Death urging an emaciated donkey towards a precipice with a carrot labeled "Victory." By questioning the possibility of victory in World War I, Robinson conveyed his opposition to it in this and other cartoons published in The Masses, the leftist journal to which he began contributing in 1912. Influenced by the work of Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), Robinson developed his hallmark style using emphatic, expressive strokes of lithographic crayon.
  • Title from item.
  • Published in The Masses, v. 8 (October 1916), pp. 18-19.
  • Signed in ink lower right.
  • Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 42
  • Purchase; (DLC/PP-1993.188.2).
  • Forms part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation collection.
  • Reprinted in Art for The Masses (1911-1917) : A radical magazine and its graphics / Rebecca Zurier. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1985, p. 57.
  • Exhibited: Katonah Museum.
  • Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 1998.
  • Exhibited: "World War I and American Art" at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 2016 - April 2017; at the New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y., May - Sept. 2017; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, Oct. 2017 - Jan. 2018.
• Subjects:
  • World War, 1914-1918--Moral & ethical aspects.
  • Abyss--1910-1920.
  • Carrots--1910-1920.
  • Death--1910-1920.
  • Donkeys--1910-1920.
• Format:
  • Drawings--1910-1920.
  • Political cartoons--1910-1920.
• Collections:
  • Goldstein Foundation Collection--Prints and Drawings
• Part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation collection
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-30754 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC4-3901 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-119290 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Call Number: Goldstein, no. 1648 (D size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing on paper : crayon, india ink and opaque white ; sheet 48.5 x 68 cm.

• Call Number: Goldstein, no. 1648 (D size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing on paper : crayon, india ink and opaque white ; sheet 48.5 x 68 cm.

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