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"Next day the editor charged into the Journal office like a rampaging buffalo, ready to tear his rival editor apart," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
"Next day the editor charged into the Journal office like a rampaging buffalo, ready to tear his rival editor apart," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
"Next day the editor charged into the Journal office like a rampaging buffalo, ready to tear his rival editor apart," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain

"Next day the editor charged into the Journal office like a rampaging buffalo, ready to tear his rival editor apart," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain

Artist Lynd Ward (American, 1905-1985)
Author May McNeer (American, 1902 - 1994)
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston, Massachusetts, founded 1880)
Datec. 1962
MediumGray gouache heightened with white and graphite on illustration board
DimensionsImage: 15.1 x 31.4 cm (5 15/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Sheet (board ): 17.8 x 35.6 cm (7 x 14 in.)
Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineTransfer from Rutgers University Libraries
Object number85.005.010.002
Collections
Exhibition History- Lynd Ward Draws Stories: Inspired by Mexico's History, Mark Twain, and Adventures in the Woods, 07/07/2012-08/30/2013, Zimmerli Art Museum, Duvoisin Gallery

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"As Mark picked up the bird to look at it, Laird and his second came out of the gulch," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
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“Other nights Sammy lingered by the wide fireplace listening to the moaning sound of his aunt’s spinning wheel, or he joined the many children gathered in the kitchen. Negroes sat there telling fearsome stories of Old Raw Head and Bloody Bones—or the tale of the ‘Golden Arm’.”
Illustration design for America’s Mark Twain
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
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"After the first lesson the teacher said, 'Mr Clemens, you can fall off a bicycle more ways than the man who invented it!'," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
Mark Twain Being Photographed, illustration design for America's Mark Twain (Chapter 8)
Mark Twain Being Photographed, illustration design for America's Mark Twain (Chapter 8)
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
"Just as he got halfway down his feet struck a patch of ice and flew out from under him," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
"Just as he got halfway down his feet struck a patch of ice and flew out from under him," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
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“As they were carrying the trunk out the tavern door, they saw the scarlet flood of British regulars come to a halt before the Minute Men,” from America’s Paul Revere
Lynd Ward
c. 1946
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The Editor's Reward
José Guadalupe Posada
published 1947
Editor-in-Chief Of The Newspaper Lieutenant-Colonel Nikolai Ivanovich Pysin
Editor-in-Chief Of The Newspaper Lieutenant-Colonel Nikolai Ivanovich Pysin
Mark Markov-Grinberg
1943
Editor-in-Chief Lieutenant-Colonel S. Giperman Reviews A Final Print Of The Newspaper
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Mark Markov-Grinberg
1944
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"But if you keep them in front, like mine..." from donkey-donkey
Roger Duvoisin
c. 1933
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The Plow (Plate 7)
Hugo Gellert
1935
Image Not Available for Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Samuel Johnson Woolf
20th century