Physical Description
Image of man with an overcoat and briefcase standing in a fence enclosed swamp. Pliers in one hand
Dimensions
overall: Height: 11.620 inches (29.515 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm)
Materials
overall : paper, charcoal, ink, tempera, graphite
Markings
Recto: "Graphite artist "squaring" around image. Verso: upper right corner, in graphite "47"; center of upper half "3738@" in graphite; center of lower half, red editor's stamp reading" POSTED JUL 17 1954 EDITORIAL AUDITING DEPT." Interspersed, in red colored pencil, is "Kill P/R 7/23/55 225 for/illus & 2 [illegible]; lower right corner, in graphite, "KILLED" encircled
Signature
"W.S." in ink in lower right of image
Contributor
Artist:
William Sharp
Biography
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.