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1940.09.19 “It suddenly occurs to Mr Ickles!” by Lute Pease

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1940.09.19 “It suddenly occurs to Mr Ickles!” by Lute Pease Comic Art

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Title:	1940.09.19 “It suddenly occurs to Mr Ickles!” by Lute Pease
Artist:	Lute Pease (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	543
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Added to Site:	6/30/2019
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“It suddenly occurs to Mr Ickles!” (September 19, 1940)
Lucius Curtis “Lute” Pease, Jr. (1869 -1963)
14 x 17 in, ink, pencil and chalk on board

Pease was cartoonist for the Newark Evening News from 1914 to 1954, and received the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. He was a miner in Alaska for 5 years before beginning a career in art. He was an illustrator for the Oregonian and famously interviewed Mark Twain. From his retirement in 1954 until his death in 1963, he devoted himself to fostering his skills as a painter of portraits and landscapes.

Harold Ickes had campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party in 1912. By 1932, Ickes no longer supported Herbert Hoover and headed a committee of liberal Republicans who supported FDR. FDR rewarded his work by appointing him Secretary of the Interior in 1933.

He was an outspoken supporter of civil rights. He had headed the Chicago NAACP in 1923, and as Interior Secretary, he fought for minority hiring on construction projects, desegregated his own agency, tried to improve the lot of Native Americans, opposed the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, and appointed the first African American federal judge (the federal bench in the U.S. Virgin Islands was under his jurisdiction). After African-American singer Marian Anderson was refused permission to perform at Constitution Hall in 1939, Ickes helped arrange her famous concert at the Lincoln Memorial and he introduced her to the crowd of 75,000 who had gathered to see her.

Ickes was perhaps the first and most vocal member of Roosevelt’s government to recognize the threat of fascism and the horror of Nazi prosecution and to urge United States action.

Ickles is seen to have had interest in being FDR’s successor before FDR’s unprecedented decision to run for a third term as President in 1940, following the outbreak of WWII (September 1938). In the cartoon, Ickes is penning a letter and contemplating his own future. On July 18, 1940, Roosevelt was nominated for a third presidential term at the Democratic Party convention in Chicago.

During presidential campaigns, Ickes became known as “Roosevelt’s hatchet man” because of his colourful attacks upon Republican candidates

When especially peeved or pouting, Harold Ickes would write of resignation, which Roosevelt always declined. FDR would use his charm, which certainly had its effect with Ickes. It was a rare occasion when Ickes was not resigning or seriously considering resigning. For one who truly relished a fight, Ickes’ own skin was paper-thin.

In November 1940 Roosevelt was elected to his third term as president. World War II had broken out in Europe and Roosevelt promised that he would do what he could to keep the U.S. out of the war. However, on December 7, 1941 Japan bombed the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Ickes, who had stayed on after FDR’s death in April 1945, resigned his cabinet position in 1946 when Truman appointed an oil magnate undersecretary of the navy. He wrote a column for the New Republic from 1946 until his death in 1952 in which he spoke out forcefully against Senator Joseph McCarthy, political corruption, and the timid leadership of political parties.

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