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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
Barbara Shermund - Artist Info
About Barbara Shermund: Keywords
Keywords (31)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
Art Subject
- •Feminist Themes, Women's Equality, Feminism
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
Art Association
- •Salons of America
- •Society of Illustrators-
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Cartoon Specialty
- •COLLIER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •ESQUIRE MAGAZINE Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •LIFE Magazine Illustrator, Photographer
- •THE NEW YORKER Magazine Illustration, Cartoon or Photography
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Salons of America-
- •San Francisco Art Association