Art Young was an American cartoonist and writer most famous for his socialist cartoons drawn for the left wing political magazine "The Masses" between the years 1911 & 1917.
He attended the Chicago Academy of Design in 1884 and published his first cartoon in the same year in the trade paper Nimble Nickel.
Young resumed his studies in 1888 at the Art Students League of New York then the Académie Julian in Paris. When he returned to New York City he sold drawings to such magazines as Puck, Life, and Judge, and drew cartoons for William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal. Young also studied rhetoric at Cooper Union becoming firmly enthralled in the radical movement of Greenwich Village in 1910.
Young began as apolitical Republican but gradually turned towards left wing ideas and in 1906 he considered himself a socialist working at the radical socialist monthly "The Masses" as co-editor and contributor, holding the position from 1911 to 1918. Young stayed with the magazine until it folded.
Young once ran for the New York State Assembly with the Socialist Party of New York City in 1913 but was unsuccessful. He ran again in 1918 unsuccessfully for public office on the Socialist ticket for the New York State Senate.
Young challenged the Associated Press in his cartoons and drawings. An example was when Young's cartoon and Max Eastman's editorial claimed the Associated Press had willfully suppressed the facts in order to aid coal companies.
Young served as an illustrator and Washington correspondent for Metropolitan Magazine (1912-17) until the magazine released him due to his outspoken anti-war sentiments.
Art Young, Max Eastman, John Reed, Floyd Dell, and Merrill Rogers were charged in October 1917 under the Espionage Act by the federal government on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct enlistment. A cartoon illustrated General Sherman's well-known saying that 'war is hell.' Years later the same saying would be attributed to General Patton. The first trial ended in a hung jury (official tally 11-1 for conviction).
A second trial began in October 1918 and throughout the trial Young had the tendency to nap which brought him close to being charged with contempt of court. Art's attorneys insisted he stay awake and was given a pencil and pad on which he completed a self-portrait title "Art Young on Trial for His Life".
During the trail the prosecutor wrapped himself up in an American flag for his closing statement telling the story of a dead soldier in France claiming 'is but one of a thousand whose voices are not silent. He died for you and he died for me. He died for Max Eastman. He died for John Reed. He died for Merrill Rogers. He demands that these men be punished.' Art Young suddenly woke up and exclaimed, 'What! Didn't he die for me too?' The pathetic oration was ruined. The second jury was unable to convict or acquit, voting for acquittal. Charges were dropped for the last time after failing twice to get a conviction.
Young then became disillusioned with editors like Max Eastman and others who were able to live off a struggling magazine while he received a nominal fee working pro bono. Young departed from "The Liberator" in 1919 to start a magazine of his own called "Good Morning". It was later absorbed by the Art Young Quarterly in 1922.
Young also contributed to The Nation, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, New Leader, New Masses, The Coming Nation, Appeal to Reason, Dawn, The Call, The New Yorker, and Big Stick. He published
autobiographical books such as "On My Way" (1928) and "Art Young: His Life and Times" (1939) and a series of drawings depicting Hell in Cosmopolitan magazine and issued a collection of his drawings "The Best of Art Young" 1936.
Art Young died at the Hotel Irving in New York City at age 77.
His papers are housed at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library.
He attended the Chicago Academy of Design in 1884 and published his first cartoon in the same year in the trade paper Nimble Nickel.
Young resumed his studies in 1888 at the Art Students League of New York then the Académie Julian in Paris. When he returned to New York City he sold drawings to such magazines as Puck, Life, and Judge, and drew cartoons for William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal. Young also studied rhetoric at Cooper Union becoming firmly enthralled in the radical movement of Greenwich Village in 1910.
Young began as apolitical Republican but gradually turned towards left wing ideas and in 1906 he considered himself a socialist working at the radical socialist monthly "The Masses" as co-editor and contributor, holding the position from 1911 to 1918. Young stayed with the magazine until it folded.
Young once ran for the New York State Assembly with the Socialist Party of New York City in 1913 but was unsuccessful. He ran again in 1918 unsuccessfully for public office on the Socialist ticket for the New York State Senate.
Young challenged the Associated Press in his cartoons and drawings. An example was when Young's cartoon and Max Eastman's editorial claimed the Associated Press had willfully suppressed the facts in order to aid coal companies.
Young served as an illustrator and Washington correspondent for Metropolitan Magazine (1912-17) until the magazine released him due to his outspoken anti-war sentiments.
Art Young, Max Eastman, John Reed, Floyd Dell, and Merrill Rogers were charged in October 1917 under the Espionage Act by the federal government on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct enlistment. A cartoon illustrated General Sherman's well-known saying that 'war is hell.' Years later the same saying would be attributed to General Patton. The first trial ended in a hung jury (official tally 11-1 for conviction).
A second trial began in October 1918 and throughout the trial Young had the tendency to nap which brought him close to being charged with contempt of court. Art's attorneys insisted he stay awake and was given a pencil and pad on which he completed a self-portrait title "Art Young on Trial for His Life".
During the trail the prosecutor wrapped himself up in an American flag for his closing statement telling the story of a dead soldier in France claiming 'is but one of a thousand whose voices are not silent. He died for you and he died for me. He died for Max Eastman. He died for John Reed. He died for Merrill Rogers. He demands that these men be punished.' Art Young suddenly woke up and exclaimed, 'What! Didn't he die for me too?' The pathetic oration was ruined. The second jury was unable to convict or acquit, voting for acquittal. Charges were dropped for the last time after failing twice to get a conviction.
Young then became disillusioned with editors like Max Eastman and others who were able to live off a struggling magazine while he received a nominal fee working pro bono. Young departed from "The Liberator" in 1919 to start a magazine of his own called "Good Morning". It was later absorbed by the Art Young Quarterly in 1922.
Young also contributed to The Nation, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, New Leader, New Masses, The Coming Nation, Appeal to Reason, Dawn, The Call, The New Yorker, and Big Stick. He published
autobiographical books such as "On My Way" (1928) and "Art Young: His Life and Times" (1939) and a series of drawings depicting Hell in Cosmopolitan magazine and issued a collection of his drawings "The Best of Art Young" 1936.
Art Young died at the Hotel Irving in New York City at age 77.
His papers are housed at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library.
Art Young was an American cartoonist and writer most famous for his socialist cartoons drawn for the left wing political magazine "The Masses" between the years 1911 & 1917.
He attended the Chicago Academy of Design in 1884 and published his first cartoon in the same year in the trade paper Nimble Nickel.
Young resumed his studies in 1888 at the Art Students League of New York then the Académie Julian in Paris. When he returned to New York City he sold drawings to such magazines as Puck, Life, and Judge, and drew cartoons for William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal. Young also studied rhetoric at Cooper Union becoming firmly enthralled in the radical movement of Greenwich Village in 1910.
Young began as apolitical Republican but gradually turned towards left wing ideas and in 1906 he considered himself a socialist working at the radical socialist monthly "The Masses" as co-editor and contributor, holding the position from 1911 to 1918. Young stayed with the magazine until it folded.
Young once ran for the New York State Assembly with the Socialist Party of New York City in 1913 but was unsuccessful. He ran again in 1918 unsuccessfully for public office on the Socialist ticket for the New York State Senate.
Young challenged the Associated Press in his cartoons and drawings. An example was when Young's cartoon and Max Eastman's editorial claimed the Associated Press had willfully suppressed the facts in order to aid coal companies.
Young served as an illustrator and Washington correspondent for Metropolitan Magazine (1912-17) until the magazine released him due to his outspoken anti-war sentiments.
Art Young, Max Eastman, John Reed, Floyd Dell, and Merrill Rogers were charged in October 1917 under the Espionage Act by the federal government on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct enlistment. A cartoon illustrated General Sherman's well-known saying that 'war is hell.' Years later the same saying would be attributed to General Patton. The first trial ended in a hung jury (official tally 11-1 for conviction).
A second trial began in October 1918 and throughout the trial Young had the tendency to nap which brought him close to being charged with contempt of court. Art's attorneys insisted he stay awake and was given a pencil and pad on which he completed a self-portrait title "Art Young on Trial for His Life".
During the trail the prosecutor wrapped himself up in an American flag for his closing statement telling the story of a dead soldier in France claiming 'is but one of a thousand whose voices are not silent. He died for you and he died for me. He died for Max Eastman. He died for John Reed. He died for Merrill Rogers. He demands that these men be punished.' Art Young suddenly woke up and exclaimed, 'What! Didn't he die for me too?' The pathetic oration was ruined. The second jury was unable to convict or acquit, voting for acquittal. Charges were dropped for the last time after failing twice to get a conviction.
Young then became disillusioned with editors like Max Eastman and others who were able to live off a struggling magazine while he received a nominal fee working pro bono. Young departed from "The Liberator" in 1919 to start a magazine of his own called "Good Morning". It was later absorbed by the Art Young Quarterly in 1922.
Young also contributed to The Nation, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, New Leader, New Masses, The Coming Nation, Appeal to Reason, Dawn, The Call, The New Yorker, and Big Stick. He published
autobiographical books such as "On My Way" (1928) and "Art Young: His Life and Times" (1939) and a series of drawings depicting Hell in Cosmopolitan magazine and issued a collection of his drawings "The Best of Art Young" 1936.
Art Young died at the Hotel Irving in New York City at age 77.
His papers are housed at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library.
He attended the Chicago Academy of Design in 1884 and published his first cartoon in the same year in the trade paper Nimble Nickel.
Young resumed his studies in 1888 at the Art Students League of New York then the Académie Julian in Paris. When he returned to New York City he sold drawings to such magazines as Puck, Life, and Judge, and drew cartoons for William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal. Young also studied rhetoric at Cooper Union becoming firmly enthralled in the radical movement of Greenwich Village in 1910.
Young began as apolitical Republican but gradually turned towards left wing ideas and in 1906 he considered himself a socialist working at the radical socialist monthly "The Masses" as co-editor and contributor, holding the position from 1911 to 1918. Young stayed with the magazine until it folded.
Young once ran for the New York State Assembly with the Socialist Party of New York City in 1913 but was unsuccessful. He ran again in 1918 unsuccessfully for public office on the Socialist ticket for the New York State Senate.
Young challenged the Associated Press in his cartoons and drawings. An example was when Young's cartoon and Max Eastman's editorial claimed the Associated Press had willfully suppressed the facts in order to aid coal companies.
Young served as an illustrator and Washington correspondent for Metropolitan Magazine (1912-17) until the magazine released him due to his outspoken anti-war sentiments.
Art Young, Max Eastman, John Reed, Floyd Dell, and Merrill Rogers were charged in October 1917 under the Espionage Act by the federal government on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct enlistment. A cartoon illustrated General Sherman's well-known saying that 'war is hell.' Years later the same saying would be attributed to General Patton. The first trial ended in a hung jury (official tally 11-1 for conviction).
A second trial began in October 1918 and throughout the trial Young had the tendency to nap which brought him close to being charged with contempt of court. Art's attorneys insisted he stay awake and was given a pencil and pad on which he completed a self-portrait title "Art Young on Trial for His Life".
During the trail the prosecutor wrapped himself up in an American flag for his closing statement telling the story of a dead soldier in France claiming 'is but one of a thousand whose voices are not silent. He died for you and he died for me. He died for Max Eastman. He died for John Reed. He died for Merrill Rogers. He demands that these men be punished.' Art Young suddenly woke up and exclaimed, 'What! Didn't he die for me too?' The pathetic oration was ruined. The second jury was unable to convict or acquit, voting for acquittal. Charges were dropped for the last time after failing twice to get a conviction.
Young then became disillusioned with editors like Max Eastman and others who were able to live off a struggling magazine while he received a nominal fee working pro bono. Young departed from "The Liberator" in 1919 to start a magazine of his own called "Good Morning". It was later absorbed by the Art Young Quarterly in 1922.
Young also contributed to The Nation, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, New Leader, New Masses, The Coming Nation, Appeal to Reason, Dawn, The Call, The New Yorker, and Big Stick. He published
autobiographical books such as "On My Way" (1928) and "Art Young: His Life and Times" (1939) and a series of drawings depicting Hell in Cosmopolitan magazine and issued a collection of his drawings "The Best of Art Young" 1936.
Art Young died at the Hotel Irving in New York City at age 77.
His papers are housed at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library.
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