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Robert Berkeley "Bob" Minor (15 July 1884 – 26 January 1952), alternatively known as "Fighting Bob", was a political cartoonist, a radical journalist, and, beginning in 1920, a leading member of the Communist Party USA.
Peasant women were also rarely depicted in socialist propaganda art in the period before 1920. The typical image of a peasant was a bearded, sandal-shoed man in shoddy clothes and with a scythe, until 1920, when artists began to create peasant women, who were usually buxom, full-bodied, with a scarf tied around their head. [127]
Fred Ellis (1885-1965). Fred C. Ellis (5 June 1885 – 10 June 1965) was an American editorial cartoonist.He is best remembered as one of the leading radical artists of the 1920s and 1930s as an artist for various publications of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA), including stints on the staff of the CPUSA's daily newspaper.
Bidstrup published his first drawings on his 20th birthday in a notable Danish newspaper, but had exhibited already at the age of 14 in a children's art exhibition in Copenhagen. As a communist, Bidstrup drew many cartoons about international politics and social themes, as well as subject matter related to the effects of World War II. Large ...
Jacob Burck (née Yankel Boczkowsky, January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1982) was a Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist.Active in the Communist movement from 1926 as a political cartoonist and muralist, Burck quit the Communist Party after a visit to the Soviet Union in 1936, deeply offended by political demands there to manipulate his work.
Boris Kustodiev: Celebration Marking the Opening of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on Uritsky Square in Petrograd on 19 June 1920. 1921. Russian Museum. During the 1920s, there was intense ideological competition between different artistic groupings striving to determine the forms and directions in which Soviet art would develop, seeking to occupy key posts in cultural institutions and to ...
August 1: Otto Messmer adapts the animated cartoon character Felix the Cat into a comic strip. [33] September 16: Syd Nicholls's Fatty Finn makes its debut. It will run until July 1977. December 8: The first issue of Jungle Jinks magazine is published. It will last a mere two years. [34] [35] The Scottish comics magazine The Vanguard makes its ...
[1] [2] The art critic Alfrēds Purics was the editor of the magazine during this period. [3] [4] It was restarted in Riga, the capital of newly-independent Latvia, in 1920 [2] and was published by Müllera drukātava (Latvian: Müller printing house). [5] Svari featured political cartoons and content. [6] It had an anti-Bolshevik political ...