Description
Art Young (1866-1943) 1916; The Road to Tomorrow, Greetings from the Highway Black and white lithograph, 16 x 17cm Provenance: The Estate of Anne Bullitt American cartoonist and writer Arthur Young, a close friend of Louis Bryant, is best known for the socialist drawings he created for the leftist magazine The Masses, of which he also was co-editor. Having studied at the Chicago Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York and the Acad?mie Julian in Paris, Young produced political cartoons for various newspapers and magazines in his early career, and became increasingly politically active. Anti-capitalist themes are prevalent in his work, and in 1918 he was arrested along with Boardman Robinson and other Masses contributors under the Espionage Act and charged with conspiracy. The charges were ultimately dropped, and Young went on to found other socialist publications including Liberator, Good Morning and the Art Young Quarterly as well as contributing to numerous other magazines and newspapers.

