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1947.03.24 “Somewhere in Germany” by Vaughn Shoemaker

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Title:	1947.03.24 “Somewhere in Germany” by Vaughn Shoemaker
Artist:	Vaughn Shoemaker (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	461
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	12/19/2019
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“Somewhere in Germany” (March 24, 1947)
by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (1902-1991)
13 x 16, ink and wash on board

Shoemaker was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public. He spent 22 years at the Chicago Daily, and subsequently worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago American, and Chicago Today. He retired in 1972.

The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. It was originally called the "Brother Plan" in the Soviet Union. It can be seen to be the Soviet Union's version of the Marshall Plan, which for political reasons the Eastern European countries would not be able to join without leaving the Soviet sphere of influence. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov rejected the Marshall Plan, proposing instead the Molotov Plan.

On March 18, 1947, TASS (the Russian news agency) published the text of a secret agreement made at the Yalta Conference in 1945 on the matter of German reparations, in order to back up Molotov's demand for them. The question then turned to whether the Yalta text was supplemented or superseded by the Potsdam Agreement.

This is a rather elegant piece of art from Shoemaker.

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steve staszower
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/9/2020

An elegant piece, indeed. He did a whole series of these "Somewhere in Germany" pieces in wash. He did the same with "Somewhere in Italy." Notably, he did not do the series with Japan - which the editorial cartoonists of the time almost always depicted VERY differently than our (white) opponents in Europe.

George Hagenauer
Member Since 2005

Posted on 11/12/2024

Nice I have a companion piece somewhere in england I beleive (need to check the exact wording but it was an Ally not the Axis) These are interesting as he did them as Wash paintigns quite a bit different than his normal cartoons

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