Thomas Nast - His Period and His Pictures + Almanac

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Thomas Nast
His Period and His Pictures
By Albert Bigelow Paine, 1904
600 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who was the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall political machine. Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party. Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam (the male personification of the American people), Columbia (the female personification of American values), or the Democratic donkey,[2] though he did popularize these symbols through his art. Nast was associated with the magazine Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886.
Albert Boime argues that:
As a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast wielded more influence than any other artist of the 19th century. He not only enthralled a vast audience with boldness and wit, but swayed it time and again to his personal position on the strength of his visual imagination. Both Lincoln and Grant acknowledged his effectiveness in their behalf, and as a crusading civil reformer he helped destroy the corrupt Tweed Ring that swindled New York City of millions of dollars. Indeed, his impact on American public life was formidable enough to profoundly affect the outcome of every presidential election during the period 1864 to 1884
Nast's depiction of iconic characters, such as Santa Claus and Uncle Sam, are widely credited with giving us the recognized versions we see today:
Republican Party elephant
Democratic Party donkey (although the donkey was associated with the Democrats as early as 1837, Nast popularized the representation)
Tammany Hall tiger, a symbol of Boss Tweed's political machine
Columbia, a graceful image of the Americas as a woman, usually in flowing gown and tiara, carrying a sword to defend the downtrodden.
Uncle Sam, a lanky avuncular personification of the United States (first drawn in the 1830s; Nast and John Tenniel added the goatee).
John Confucius, a variation of John Chinaman, a traditional caricature of a Chinese Immigrant.
The Fight at Dame Europa's School, 1871
Peace In Union, a 9'x12' oil depicting the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General U.S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865. The painting was a commission from Herman Kohlsaat in 1894. Upon its completion in 1895 it was presented as a gift to the citizens of Galena, Illinois.
In December 2011, a proposal to include Nast in the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2012 caused controversy. The Wall Street Journal reported that because of his stereotypical cartoons of the Irish, a number of objections were raised about Nast's work. For example, "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things" portrays a sub-human Irishman as drunk and violent
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Frank Leslie's Weekly, later
often known in short as Leslie's Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1852 and published until 1922. John Y. Foster was the first editor of the weekly, which came out on Tuesdays. There were 30 copies of the first edition printed. By 1897, its circulation had grown to an estimated 65,000 copies.
It was one of several magazines started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie and was continued after his death in 1880 by his widow, the women's suffrage campaigner Miriam Florence Leslie. The name, by then a well-established trademark, remained also after 1902, when it no longer had a connection with the Leslie family. It continued until 1922.
Throughout its decades of existence, the weekly provided illustrations and reports - first with woodcuts and Daguerreotypes, later with more advanced forms of photography - of wars from John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish-American War and the First World War.
It often took a strongly patriotic stance and frequently featured cover pictures of soldiers and heroic battle stories. It also gave extensive coverage to less martial events such as the Klondike gold rush of 1897, covered by San Francisco journalist John Bonner.
Among the writers publishing their stories in the weekly were H. Irving Hancock, Helen R. Martin, and Ellis Parker Butler. Several notable illustrators worked for the publication, including Albert Berghaus and Norman Rockwell, who created covers for the magazine in its latter years.
Surviving copies of the magazine at present fetch handsome prices as collectors' items and are considered to give a vivid picture of American life during the decades of its publication.
Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the American Civil War for his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes.
Forbes was born in New York, studied under A. F. Tait, and began as an animal and landscape painter. During the Civil War, he was special artist for Frank Leslie's Magazine. Many of the spirited etchings he drew during the conflict were later presented by General Sherman to the government. They are now preserved in the War Office at Washington because of their historic value.
After the war, Forbes painted landscape and cattle scenes, among which are "Orange County Pasture" (1879) and "Evening—Sheep Pasture" (1881). In 1877 he was made an honorary member of the London Etching Club.
He died in 1895 in Brooklyn and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.
Volumes      From                   To        Pages
9-10         Jan 1860         Nov 1860      718
11-12       Nov 1860   Nov 1861     644
13-14       Nov 1861         Sept 1 862   862
15-16       Sept 1862        Sep 1863     822
17-18       Jan 1863         Sept 1864    610
Volume 9-10, 1860-1861, 718 pages
Volume 11-12, 1862-1863,
Vol. 10 lacks no. 241 (July 7, 1860) and no. 242 (July 14, 1860)
Vol. 11 lacks no. 268 (Jan. 12, 1861) through no. 274 (Feb. 24, 1861)
Vol. 16 lacks no. 404 (July 4, 1863)
Vol. 17 lacks no. 417 (Sep. 26, 1863) through no. 431 (Dec. 26, 1863)
Vol. 10 lacks no. 241 (July 7, 1860) and no. 242 (July 14, 1860)
Vol. 11 lacks no. 268 (Jan. 12, 1861) through no. 274 (Feb. 24, 1861)
Vol. 16 lacks no. 404 (July 4, 1863)
Vol. 17 lacks no. 417 (Sep. 26, 1863) through no. 431 (Dec. 26, 1863)
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