Art Young: His Life and Times
- SIGNED
- New York: Sheridan House, 1939
The autobiography of the prominent socialist cartoonist Art Young, inscribed to a woman he names in his book (with the correct spelling of her first name) as one of "the beautiful women I have met who were active in progressive or radical affairs." Sara Bard Field was a suffragist, poet, and Christian socialist, married to the writer and civil liberties activist Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Young refers to Wood in his letter to Field:
"I am impelled to write you because of your good poem in the [Marxist magazine] New Masses. The foreword too interested me because I think of you both -- often I can picture our Grand Old Man looking heroically toward the sunset. Tell him, I'm with him, such a spirit will never die. We of the old guard: artists and writers, recall his fine record of doing and daring, when we meet here in New York and discourse."
Young signs with his name and a small sketch of a sunset over water. He wrote his affectionate note two days before Wood's 89th birthday, a touching tribute from one famous pacifist to another not long before their country would be plunged into total war -- the subject of the poem that prompted Young's letter.
Details
Title
Art Young: His Life and Times
Author
Young, Art; [Sara Bard Field]
Publisher
Sheridan House: New York
Date
1939
Edition
First Edition