Spring 1939! – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Spring 1939!, preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Spring 1939!" is an India ink drawing over graphite underdrawing, dated March 21, 1939, and the catalog notes suggest it was probably published in the Washington Star. The title's exclamation point and seasonal cheer contrast with the news of the moment: a week earlier, on March 15, German forces had occupied what remained of Czechoslovakia, and European diplomacy was moving steadily toward war. Editorial cartoons of this kind compressed current events into a single image, so the drawing is best read as commentary on that week's headlines. The pencil lines beneath the ink also reveal the artist's working process.
| Created / published | 1939 March 21. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over graphite underdrawing. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) American.Drawings. |
| Notes | Probably published in: Washington star. (DLC/PP-1945:R2.439) This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860127. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,599 × 4,105 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226143 |
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