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1945.02.17 “A Pretty Shaky Ladder of Success” By Stan MacGovern

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Title:	1945.02.17 “A Pretty Shaky Ladder of Success” By Stan MacGovern
Artist:	Stan MacGovern (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	647
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Added to Site:	3/15/2020
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1945.02.17 “A Pretty Shaky Ladder of Success”
By Stan MacGovern (1903-1975)
11 x 14 in., pen on paper

MacGovern was best known for his comic strip “Silly Milly” which ran in the New York Post from the 1930s into the 1950s. McGovern also drew editorial cartoons for the Post, and he was included in a 2004 exhibit, "Cartoonists Against the Holocaust: Art in the Service of Humanity," sponsored by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. Silly Milly, which had limited syndication, came to an end in 1951. MacGovern left the newspaper field to run a gift shop on Long Island. It was an unsuccessful business, and he later worked at a Long Island furniture store. In 1975, at the age of 72, he committed suicide.

One of those lovely cartoons that represents a clear narrative. Hilter’s climb to his summit, taking eastern Europe as his open “living space,” to create a vast German empire, was (by the end of the war) fraught with failure.

By early 1944, having suffered hundreds of thousands of deaths fighting the Soviet Union, and with the front lines approaching its own cities, Hungary was ready to exit World War II. Hitler preemptively sent in occupying troops in March, but by October the Red Army was massing a huge offensive. Adolf Hitler declared Budapest a fortress city (Festung Budapest), which was to be defended to the last man… and Stalin set his sights on taking the city as a way to demonstrate his strength to FDR and Churchill. The final battle started on Christmas eve, and by early February the Soviets had control of the city, and then the country. Two months later, in April, Vienna fell.

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Rob Stolzer
Member Since 2004

Posted on 3/21/2020

Ah, I do love Stan MacGovern's work and even though his cartoony still sometimes doesn't feel like the best fit for political cartoons, it works beautifully here. Such animated line work. Sweet stuff, Brian.

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