overall: 240 cm x 133.5 cm; 94 1/2 in x 52 9/16 in
Object Name:
print
Date made:
1942-1943
1942
Subject:
Military
Soviet Union
Political Caricatures
ID Number:
GA*18850
Accession number:
164567
Catalog number:
18850
Description:
During World War II, after the breakdown of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, the Soviet news agency TASS issued a series of propaganda posters. Topics included anti-Nazi caricatures and Socialist Realist art encouraging the war effort. Beginning in June 1941, the Union of Soviet Artists established a publishing collective to produce the posters on an almost daily basis. Because they were displayed in the windows of the news agency's Moscow office, they are known as TASS window posters. It is estimated that about 1,500 different posters were produced between 1941 and 1945.
Well-known artists and poets worked on the designs and captions, and most of the posters were produced in limited editions using the stencil process for both graphics and text. Many posters were completed and reproduced within 24 hours, making them very responsive to political issues and war news. Copies were distributed abroad by VOKS, the Soviet Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Their messages helped present the USSR favorably to its new allies, including the U.S. The Museum has six of these posters received in 1943 through VOKS. Other collections outside Russia include the University of Nottingham in England and Columbia and Cornell universities in the U.S.
TASS window poster No. 503. Six-panel poster with caricatures of Hitler's rise to power, including the Munich beer-hall putsch, book burning, and the publication of Mein Kampf. Three artists—Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov, and Nikolai Sokolov—known collectively as Kukryniksy are credited with the design, and poet Deyman Bedny wrote the text.
The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase through the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program Funds
Accession Number:
1989-41-204
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Bust-length figure of man with blond hair, wearing blue bow tie, dark jacket, his hands rest on small square base
James Cruze: Performing Arts\Director\Motion Pictures
Joseph M. Schenck: Performing Arts\Producer
Joseph M. Schenck: Business and Industry\Business Executive
Portrait
Credit Line:
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of Richard Merkin
Object number:
NPG.96.126
Exhibition Label:
After caricaturist Ralph Barton published an illustration in Vanity Fair highlighting the film-world elite dining at Hollywood's legendary Cocoanut Grove restaurant, the design was chosen for an Americana series of silk fabrics. One young flapper chose the Cocoanut Grove silk to make into this simple frock. Famous profiles of John Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Eddie Cantor pop out of the picture; Charlie Chaplin scurries in late; film industry regulator Will Hays serves as the maître d'hôtel. The dress, still stained from its partygoing career, undoubtedly evoked for its owner the tempo, glamour, and theatricality of metropolitan life. To her elders, though, it must have seemed shockingly revealing of arms and legs.
During World War II, after the breakdown of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, the Soviet news agency TASS issued a series of propaganda posters. Topics included anti-Nazi caricatures and Socialist Realist art encouraging the war effort. Beginning in June 1941, the Union of Soviet Artists established a publishing collective to produce the posters on an almost daily basis. Because they were displayed in the windows of the news agency's Moscow office, they are known as TASS window posters. It is estimated that about 1,500 different posters were produced between 1941 and 1945.
Well-known artists and poets worked on the designs and captions, and most of the posters were produced in limited editions using the stencil process for both graphics and text. Many posters were completed and reproduced within 24 hours, making them very responsive to political issues and war news. Copies were distributed abroad by VOKS, the Soviet Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Their messages helped present the USSR favorably to its new allies, including the U.S. The Museum has six of these posters received in 1943 through VOKS. Other collections outside Russia include the University of Nottingham in England and Columbia and Cornell universities in the U.S.
TASS window poster No. 514 is a caricature of a Nazi soldier in his underwear carrying his clothes, with another figure at his side. It may be titled "Ragmen," but the point of the satire is not clear from the image.
Miguel Covarrubias, caricature artist of 1920s America
Creator:
National Portrait Gallery
Type:
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2012-07-16T18:46:52.000Z
Metadata Updated:
2013-03-16T03:15:00.000Z
Topic:
Portraits
YouTube Category:
Education
Views:
642
Video Title:
Miguel Covarrubias, caricature artist of 1920s America
Description:
Warren Perry, writer at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, discusses Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias and his works in the NPG collection, particularly a circa 1925 portrait of President Calvin Coolidge. Miguel Covarrubias appeared on the New York art scene in the 1920s, and his skill as a portrait artist and celebrity caricaturist quickly made him a favorite of magazines. Covarrubias transitioned from caricaturist to curator over the next many years of his life, and while his caricatures will always be treasures, his work as an anthropologist laid the foundation for modern studies of the Balinese—his work on Bali is still considered one of the primary texts of the island's culture—and for studies of the ancient Olmec and Mexican world. For more on Miguel Covarrubias, see the NPG blog: http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2012/06/miguel-covarrubias-caricatures-of-the-jazz-age-and-the-harlem-renaissance.html Filmed at NPG, July 2012.
Alan Fern Standing Near Caricature by Edward Sorel
Author:
Tinsley, Jeff
Subject:
Fern, Alan Maxwell 1930-
National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
Physical description:
Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Date:
1988
Topic:
Art museum directors
Portraits
Standard number:
88-5734-9
Restrictions:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact osiaref@si.edu or call 202-633-5870. To order reproductions, call 202-633-1933 or contact photos@si.edu
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Featured in Torch, April 1988
Summary:
"Alan Fern beneath a caricature painted as an 'inside joke' by his friend Edward Sorel, to celebrate Fern's appointment as director [of NPG]." Fern was appointed director of the National Portrait Gallery in 1982
Van Rooy Properties 902 North Meridian Indianapolis Indiana 46204
Date:
1913
Topic:
Recreation--Sport & Play--Track & Field
Recreation--Sport & Play--Weightlifting
Figure group--Male
Control number:
IAS IN000171
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Indiana survey, 1993
Summary:
Sculpted gargoyle-like figures posed to show physical fitness program of Turnverein. Figures are seated on pedestals on either side of an entryway. The west figure is shown with a shotput. The east figure is shown with a barbell
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
Celebrity caricature, selections from Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Author:
Chin, Cecilia H (Cecilia Hui-hsin) 1938-
Periale, Elizabeth A. 1962-
Van Doren, Nicole 1972-
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library
Type:
Electronic resources
Exhibitions
Date:
2003
Topic:
Caricatures and cartoons
Notes:
Title from opening page viewed June 18, 2003 with Internet Explorer 6.0
Exhibit curator: Cecilia H. Chin; exhibit design and production: Elizabeth A. Periale; website design: Nicole Van Doren
Summary:
In the late 1990's the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery Library (AA/PG Library) made a special effort to collect materials on caricature and cartoon in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery's 1998 exhibition "Celebrity Caricature in America". This online version of a case exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries highlights some of the images pulled from these materials
