Historic Framed Print, The indestructible phoenix, 17-7/8" x 21-7/8"

Beautiful historic reproduction print from the Library of Congress collections.

Created 1 drawing : black pencil and/or crayon over blue pencil on off-white grained drawing stock ; 448 x 313 cm (sheet) 1942 July 6 [publication date] (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b30611 The Indestructable Phoenix. No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: ROLLIN / KIRBY. Title inscribed below image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.417) Kirby's cartoon comments on the political rebirth of Wendell Wilkie after his loss to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. The New York Post in a July 3rd editorial, called for Wilkie as the GOP nominee for the governorship of New York instead of the likely candidate, Thomas E. Dewey. The artist uses the tale of the legendary phoenix, to symbolize Wilkie's comeback. The phoenix, said to have lived 500 years, burned itself on a pyre, then rose from its ashes to live another life. Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress). Published in: New York Post, July 6, 1942. Exhibited: Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Great Game of Politics

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