Art Young (January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American cartoonist and writer. Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. He is most famous for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the radical magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution The Masses was a graphically innovative magazine of Socialist politics published monthly in the U
Biography
Young was born in near Orangeville in Stephenson County, Illinois. Orangeville is the name of several places In Australia: Orangeville New South Wales In Canada: Orangeville Stephenson County is a County located in the US state of Illinois. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. He enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Design in 1884, the same year in which his first published cartoon appeared in a trade paper entitled, Nimble Nickel. Also in that same year, he began working for a succession of Chicago newspapers including the Evening Mail, the Daily News, and the Tribune. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily Newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago Illinois. The Chicago Tribune is a major daily Newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and owned by the Tribune Company
In 1888, Young resumed his studies, first at the Art Students League in New York City (until 1889), then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1889-90). The City of New York The Académie Julian was an Art school in Paris, France. Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Following a long convalescence, he joined the Chicago Inter-Ocean (1892), to which he contributed political cartoons and drawings for its Sunday color supplement. An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration or Comic strip containing a political or Social message that usually In 1895 or 1896, he worked briefly for the Denver Times, then moved again to New York City where he sold drawings to the humor magazines Puck, Life, and Judge, and drew cartoons for William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal and Sunday New York American. Puck was America's first successful Humor magazine known for its sharp humor and colorful Cartoon Caricatures satirizing the political Judge was a weekly magazine published in the United States of America between 1881 and 1936 For other people named William Randolph Hearst see William Randolph Hearst (disambiguation William Randolph Hearst I (April 29 1863 &ndash The New York Journal American was a Newspaper published from 1937 to 1966
Young started out as a generally apolitical Republican, but gradually became interested in left wing ideas, and by 1906 or so considered himself a socialist. He became politically active; by 1910, racial and sexual discrimination and the injustices of the capitalist system became prevalent themes in his work. List of racism-related topics|Racism by country Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that Sexism is the belief or attitude that one Gender or Sex is inferior to or less valuable than the other and can also refer to a Hatred or distrust towards Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where
Young voiced his beliefs and opinions as co-editor of and contributor to the socialist illustrated journal, The Masses, from 1911 to 1918. In 1918 he and several other Masses contributors were prosecuted under the Espionage Act by the federal government on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct the draft. The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I on June 15 1917 which made it a Crime for a person After two hung juries failed to convict, the charges were dropped.
Young subsequently helped to establish a similar publication entitled Liberator. The Liberator was a monthly magazine established by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman in 1918 to continue the work of The Masses, which He also served as an illustrator and Washington correspondent for Metropolitan Magazine (1912-17), and from 1919 to 1921 produced another leftist journal, Good Morning, later absorbed by the Art Young Quarterly in 1922. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D
Young also contributed illustrations to The Nation, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly, New Leader, New Masses, The Coming Nation, Appeal to Reason, Dawn, The Call, The New Yorker (after the 1930), and Big Stick. This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly Magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, Collier's Weekly was an American Magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957 The New Leader is a political and cultural Magazine begun in 1924 by a group of figures associated with the Socialist Party of America, including The New Masses (1926 – 1948 was prominent American Marxist publication edited by Michael Gold, and briefly by Whittaker Chambers Appeal to Reason is the fifth Studio album by American Punk rock band Rise Against, released on October 7, 2008 The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry Of the many books he wrote, two, On My Way (1928) and Art Young: His Life and Times (1939), are autobiographical. Of special note are his series of drawings depicting Hell, published in Cosmopolitan magazine and in several books, including Through Hell With Hiprah Hunt, available at Google Books. Cosmopolitan is the best-selling young women's magazine in the world [1] He issued a collection of his drawings, The Best of Art Young, in 1936.
References
- American Art Annual, 1927
- Dictionary of American Biography, suppl. 3
- Who Was Who in America, vol. 2
- Horn, World Encyclopedia of Cartoons
- Rebecca Zurier, Art for the Masses
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