Ad Reinhardt - WWII Political Cartoon Featuring Hitler - Likely PM Newspaper

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Title:	Ad Reinhardt - WWII Political Cartoon Featuring Hitler - Likely PM Newspaper
Artist:	Ad Reinhardt (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	320
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	9/23/2021
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I'm really quite please to add a second Ad Reinhardt political cartoon to my collection. This piece is mostly made up of a sarcophagus collage image, with Hitler's dead head drawn on the board beneath the print. This type of cartoon work is quite indicative of Reinhardt's political cartoons done for PM, the left-leaning newspaper that he worked for from 1942 to 1947. Given that Hitler committed suicide in 1945, that seems a good guesstimate as to the date of this piece.

Reinhardt's care with the China white watercolor reminds me of a piece of writing by Art Spiegelman. In part, Art wrote:

�Seeing this stuff again, it�s fascinating to find how little the cartoons are in person, and how jewel-like in their making. Because of their size, they seem quite humble. And while the ideas move from box to box, the visuals are collages of his modernist cartooning with old wood engravings. He used the Surrealism that he mocked in his text to invent a new form of comics as essays. When I walked into the gallery I realized how constructed these works are, how much attention it took to make them. This was a fully realized enterprise by somebody who really knew his business. You could see the loving craftwork. Reinhardt was making this art for reproduction, and when you see someone putting white paint on either side of a line to make it crisper, you know it�s somebody who really cares about that line.�

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	Rob Stolzer Premium Gallery Owner
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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 9/23/2021

Great old time artifact from an era where artwork was a privilege to hold onto. Has both cartooning and illustrative work.

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