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1942.04.26 “Rub a Dub Dub” By Abe Birnbaum

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Title:	1942.04.26 “Rub a Dub Dub” By Abe Birnbaum
Artist:	Abe Birnbaum (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	7/18/2020
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1942.04.26 “Rub a Dub Dub”
By Abe Birnbaum (1899-1966)
11 x 14 in., crayon on textured paper

Rub A Dub Dub
Three Men in a Tub
And Who Do You Think They Be?
The Butcher, The Butcher,
And the Butcher!

Abe Birnbaum is best known for his prolific work with The New Yorker magazine. He painted nearly 200 covers for the magazine from the 1940's through the 1970's. He also illustrated approximately 500 black-and-white drawings and paintings for the interior of the magazine from the 1930's through the 1970's. Birnbaum's work with The New Yorker captured the mood of the day, including special and mundane moments of the lives of the upper and middle classes, both in the big city and the country. His art and point of view were carefree, simple and reflective of the times.

At the start of the war, after years of appeasement, the misperception was that Germany and Japan were ferocious war makers, that they were strategically adept, and almost unstoppable. Germany had a head start rearming militarily and then it enjoyed quick success in 10 border wars against much weaker European states. Japan invaded China and other parts of Asia and faced very little resistance. Italy, which entered WWII on the Axis side in 1940 as the defeat of France
became apparent, encountered more opposition in North Africa. None of this prowess was particularly true, and the only real advantage they had was to try win the war very quickly.

By early 1942, the Axis appeared to be unstoppable. Japan lost is dominance in the Pacific by June, at the battle of Midway. Germany had started its two-front war with its invasion of the Soviet Union in mid-1941, which did not go well and ultimately strained the resources of the Wehrmacht.

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