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Title:
  • What A Delay in Good Road Building will do to Iowa
Description:
  • Cartoon, black ink on paper, Ding Darling, What A Delay in Good Road Building Will Do To Iowa, #661 and #3262, March 23, 1915, published in the Des Moines Register. Drawing of wagon and team of horses stuck on a muddy Iowa road, while other wagons and automobiles travel around the state on neighboring hard surface roads in Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Signed lower right corner.
    28.625 x 22.625 inches.
    Presented by Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling

    Jay Norwood Darling; b. October 21, 1876, d. February 12, 1962; better known as Ding Darling, was an American cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes.

    Darling was born in Norwood, Michigan. In 1886, the family moved to Sioux City, Iowa. Following his marriage to Genevieve Pendleton in 1906, he began work with the Des Moines Register and Leader. In 1911, he moved to New York and worked with the New York Globe but went back to Des Moines in 1913. Three years later, in 1916, he returned to New York and accepted a position with the New York Herald Tribune. By 1919, Darling returned a final time to Des Moines where he continued his career as a cartoonist, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1924 and again in 1943. His cartoons were published from 1917 to 1949 in the New York Herald Tribune.
Accession Number:
  • I 1785
Location:
  • Des Moines
Discipline:
  • Art
Object Name(s):
  • editorial cartoons, drawings
Date(s):
  • 1915
Maker(s):
  • Darling, Jay Norwood 'Ding', Artist
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Dimensions:
  • W 22.625 in
Associated Person:
  • Darling, Jay Norwood
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