us-005578-irn601404-irn597325
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archival history: The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Lisa Lehman Trager, the daughter of Harold Lehman.
biographical history: David Low (1891-1963) was a political cartoonist born in Dunudin, New Zealand. A self-taught artist, he began contributing cartoons to his local newspaper at the age of eleven. He spent time creating political cartoons for local papers as a freelance artist and as a contributor to the Bulletin of Sydney, Australia, before joining the English Star in 1919. He would spend the rest of his career in Britain creating several political cartoons a week, which were syndicated worldwide, satirizing British politicians and foreign and domestic policy. Low was especially critical of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement of Hitler and the regimes of Europe’s Fascist leaders, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. Harold Lehman (1913-2006) was born in New York City, New York to Abraham and Rachel Lehman, immigrants from Europe who arrived in New York at the turn of the twentieth century. Early on, Harold’s father struggled to find consistent employment, working as a mailman and a vaudeville dancer. Later he found steady work as an insurance agent and then left the family and moved to California. His mother was a seamstress. Harold had a twin brother and was one of five children. Harold was part Jewish, and went through synagogue as a boy. The family lived in the West side of Brooklyn and then in the Bronx. In February 1930, Harold and his older brother Charlie moved to California to live with their father. In California, Harold enrolled at the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. There he formed lifelong friendships with future notable artists such as Phil Guston, Jackson Pollock, and Manuel Tolegain. Early in his art career, Harold worked primarily as a sculptor. He used plaster and clay as well as carving directly in stone. In 1931, after graduating from Manual Arts, Lehman won a citywide competition for a yearlong scholarship to the Otis Art Institute. In 1932, after leaving Otis, Harold focused on painting and began working with pa…
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Book; 60 color plates; 10.875 cm. Small paperback book with a red cover, the book title and a political cartoon are on the front along with a cartoon image of a penguin. The book is bound with adhesive, the spine has the author’s name at the top, the title in the center, and an illustrated penguin at the bottom. The back cover has a centered white rectangle with an inset portrait and a short biography of the author.
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has beginning date: 1941-01-01
has end date: 1941-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 683
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn597325
is or was included in: us-005578-irn601404
record resource extent: overall: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
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scope and content: Small paperback book owned by Harold Lehman of sixty political cartoons by David Low illustrating the lead up to World War II and the course of war up to 1941 owned by Harold Lehman. All but two of the cartoons were previously published in The London Evening Standard, the Picture Post, or Collier’s newspapers. David Low was a New Zealand born, self-taught artist who created political cartoons for newspapers first in New Zealand and Australia, then in Great Britain. His cartoons were later syndicated worldwide. Low satirized British politicians along with their foreign and domestic policies and developments in international politics. Low was especially critical of the fascist regimes of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Josef Stalin. He also criticized British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Germany in the 1930s. Both Low and Harold Lehman were known for making political statements with their art. Lehman was born and raised in New York City, but moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, attending the Otis Art Institute. While in L.A. he worked with Phil Guston, Jackson Pollock, D.A. Siqueiros, and Manuel Tolegain. In 1941 Harold moved back to New York and continued his career, working with the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) and the Federal Art Project, both New Deal programs to employ artists. He also worked with the Treasury department and Abbott Laboratories to create War Bond advertisements, pro-American propaganda, and anti-fascist pieces.
title: Political cartoon book illustrating Europe during WWII A History in Sixty Cartoons with a Narrative Text by LOW