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Barbara Shermund

Barbara Shermund (1899 - 1978) was active/lived in New York, California.  Barbara Shermund is 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 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, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost   ...  [Displaying 885 of 7157 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Barbara Shermund

“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 s  ...  Displaying 750 of 7157 characters.

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