MR. CHURCHILL'S ART STUDY - an original printed appearance of this cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill from the 13 April 1921 edition of the magazine Punch, or The London Charivari

Artist: Ricardo Brook

Verlag: Punch, London, 1921

Beschreibung

This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon appeared thus on p.294 of the 13 April 1921 issue of Punch. The artist is Ricardo Brook. The image is captioned "IT IS SURMISED THAT THE RESULT OF MR. CHURCHILL'S ART STUDY AMONG THE PYRAMIDS IS SURE TO BE FELT." Churchill was serving as Colonial Secretary in 1921 when he presided over the post-WWI Cairo Conference, which did much to shape the modern Middle East. Here the artist gives Churchill a twin-pyramid cap and plays on his artistic inclinations, which were by now well known, Churchill having taken up painting during the First World War.Punch or The London Charivari began featuring Churchill cartoons in 1900, when his political career was just beginning. That political career would last two thirds of a century, see him occupy Cabinet office during each of the first six decades of the twentieth century, carry him twice to the premiership and, further still, into the annals of history as a preeminent statesman. And throughout that time, Punch satirized Churchill in cartoons more than 600 of them, the work of more than 50 different artists. It was a near-perfect relationship between satirists and subject. That Churchill was distinctive in both persona and physical appearance helped make him easy to caricature. To his persona and appearance he added myriad additional satirical temptations, not just props, like his cigars, siren suits, V-sign, and hats, but also a variety of ancillary avocations and vocations, like polo, painting, brick-laying, and writing. All these were skewered as well. Some Punch cartoons were laudatory, some critical, and many humorous, like the man himself. Nearly always, Churchill was distinctly recognizable, a larger-than-life character whose presence caricature served only to magnify. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007122

Bibliografische Details

Titel: MR. CHURCHILL'S ART STUDY - an original ...

Verlag: Punch, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1921