Rollin
Kirby was born in
Galva, Illinois, on 4th September, 1875. He studied art in New York
and Paris before working as a cartoonist for the New
York Mail, New
York World and the New
York Post.
Influenced by the work of Robert Minor
and Boardman Robinson, Kirby established
himself as America's leading political cartoonist after the First
World War and he won the Pulitzer Prize
for cartooning in 1921, 1924 and 1928.
Kirby was sympathetic to woman suffrage
and contributed cartoons to the Women Voter
and the Suffragist. He was
also an advocate of civil liberties and
the New Deal and attacked political
corruption and the Ku Klux Klan. Rollin Kirby
died on 8th May, 1952.
Rollin Kirby, New
York World, (1917)
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