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Masked criminal at the grave of John Barleycorn
Summary
Holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, the criminal shoots at a fleeing pilgrim. He stands next to Barleycorn's tombstone embellished with skull and cross bones.
Inscribed on the tombstone: Hic Jacet John (Hic) Barleycorn.
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Signed, upper left: RALPH / BARTON.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.846)
The drawing illustrates a portion of Walt Mason's satirical poem "So Runs the World Away." Commenting on the irony of prohibition, Mason contended that although John Barleycorn (an old English name for liquor) was presumed to be the cause of all crime, it wasn't until liquor was outlawed that crime became rampant.
Published as an illustration for: "So Runs the World Away" / by Walt Mason. Judge, October 29, 1921.
Published in: The image of America in caricature & cartoon / Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Fort Worth : The Museum, 1975, p. 118.
Exhibited: Cartoonists Guild, "The Art in Cartooning," 1975; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, "The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon," 1976.
Ralph Emerson Barton (1891–1931) was a caricaturist and illustrator. Barton’s first caricature was of Thomas Hart Benton, his last was Charlie Chaplin. In between he knew everyone and drew everyone in the social and cultural scene of New York during the 1920s and 1930s. Much of Barton’s work from the mid-1920s onward was for the New Yorker Magazine. Other prominent magazines of the era to feature his work were Collier’s, Photoplay, Vanity Fair, Judge, and Harper’s Bazaar. He also illustrated one of the 1920s' most popular books, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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