Lull in the Market
30" x 38",
Oil on canvas, Taxco, Mexico - 1978
(All sizes are approximate and exclude frame, where applicable.)
About the Artist
Artist: Vaughn Shoemaker, 1902-1991
Vaughn Richard Shoemaker was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character, John Q. Public.Shoemaker started his career at the Chicago Daily News and spent 22 years there as the chief cartoonist between 1925 and 1952. His 1938 Pulitzer cartoon for the paper was The Road Back, featuring a World War I soldier marching back to war. The 1947 winning cartoon for the paper was Still Racing His Shadow, featuring "new wage demands" of workers trying to outrun his shadow "cost of living". He went on to work for the New York Herald Tribune between 1956 and 1961, and both the Chicago American, and Chicago Today from 1961 to 1971. By his January, 1972 retirement he had drawn over 14,000 cartoons.
After retiring from cartoons, he became a fine artist, painting scenes he encountered during his many trips to Mexico and Italy.