Overview
- Date
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creation:
1931
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Harold Shachner
- Markings
- Recto: along bottom edge, a horizontal line then "A 8,3" then horizontal line in graphite; to the right of the lines is "2" encircled, in graphite. Verso, all in graphite: upper right corner, "166"; upper right quadrant, "Welt Sp. / 5.3"; center, "119 encircled / 2"; lower half, horizontal line, then "8,3 cm" then horizontal line.
- Signature
- lower left corner of image
- Contributor
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Artist:
William Sharp
- Biography
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Leon Schleifer was born in 1900 in Germany. He served in the German army at the end of World War I (1914-1918). He became a political cartoonist and his work was published in the anti-Nazi press. He also specialized in courtroom trial sketches. After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, Schliefer emigrated to the United States. He changed his name to William Sharp and continued his career as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in the New York Times, Life Magazine, and other publications. He died in 1961, age sixty-one years.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Drawings
- Object Type
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Drawing (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Image of a police officer in an argument with another man in a crowd of people. Some have stopped to look at them. Verso: miscellaneous sketches, looks like a man in the center, a smaller drawing of two people at the lower right quadrant--both in graphite. Published in "welt Spiel"
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 14.380 inches (36.525 cm) | Width: 10.120 inches (25.705 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, charcoal, wax crayon, graphite
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Harold Shachner.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-04-29 07:53:33
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