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“Where Was You Going So Hasty?” by Rollin Kirby

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Title:	“Where Was You Going So Hasty?” by Rollin Kirby
Artist:	Rollin Kirby (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	401
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Added to Site:	12/9/2019
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“Where Was You Going So Hasty?” is the first question for me
by Rollin Kirby (1975-1952)
From, Chapter 13 “Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy: Hashimura Togo” (Wallace Irwin),
In, Collier’s Vol 41 (24), 1908, p 18 (September 5, 1908)
13.5 x 18.5 in., ink on board

Kirby studied painting in New York City and Paris as a young man but switched to magazine illustrating and then cartooning. Kirby made his reputation during the 18 years (1913 to 1931) he spent on the New York World, where he the first Pulitzer Prize for cartooning, and then twice more (1922, 1925, 1929).

This drawing, and one other from the story that is part of a CAF collection, are as early as I have ever seen a Kirby piece, who ended up much better known for his editorial work.

Serialized in Collier’s, then published in 1909 by Doubleday, the story is an early anti-Japanese work, written about a Japanese youth who studied and lived in California around the turn of the century. A keen look at what the Japanese endured during the early period of discrimination and residency in America.

This illustration did not make it into the book, so it only appeared in the Collier’s serialization.

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