Lines with Power and Purpose: Editorial Cartoons
On display from June 4 - June 21
Newspaper cartoons have been the highlight of consuming the news for decades. The cartoons typically make social commentary while entertaining the viewers through witty and high-level illustrations. Lines with Power and Purpose: Editorial Cartoons features fifty-one editorial cartoons from some of the most well-known metropolitan newspapers during the Golden Age of printed journalism.
A lot of the work includes political commentary and they address issues from the first half of the twentieth century. Talented cartoonists were able to make complex political issues and the rawness of reality accessible to the average person.
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