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Barbara Shermund BIOGRAPHY
1899 San Francisco, California - 1978 Monmouth County, New Jersey. Known for: New Yorker and other magazine feminist theme cartoons.
“Overlooked No More: Barbara Shermund, Flapper-Era Cartoonist,” Review of Overlooked Obituaries, The New York Times, by Janaki Challa, March 4, 2022. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for... Read full biography
“Overlooked No More: Barbara Shermund, Flapper-Era Cartoonist,” Review of Overlooked Obituaries, The New York Times, by Janaki Challa, March 4, 2022. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. This... Read full biography
“Overlooked No More: Barbara Shermund, Flapper-Era Cartoonist,” Review of Overlooked Obituaries, The New York Times, by Janaki Challa, March 4, 2022. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new... Read full biography
“Overlooked No More: Barbara Shermund, Flapper-Era Cartoonist,” Review of Overlooked Obituaries, The New York Times, by Janaki Challa, March 4, 2022. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques. He found that talent in Barbara Shermund. For about two decades, until the... Read full biography
“Overlooked No More: Barbara Shermund, Flapper-Era Cartoonist,” Review of Overlooked Obituaries, The New York Times, by Janaki Challa, March 4, 2022. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques. He found that talent in Barbara Shermund. For about two decades, until the 1940s, S... Read full biography
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“Overlooked No More: Barbara Shermund, Flapper-Era Cartoonist,” Review of Overlooked Obituaries, The New York Times, by Janaki Challa, March 4, 2022For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as s...But wait, there's more...
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