The Arts of War: Editorial Cartoons, Illustrations, More (Winnipeg Tribune) (2)

The Winnipeg Tribune Offers Us a Peek at The Arts of War Feb. 1944

Irvine Library,  Saltcoats Heritage Centre, Imperial War Museum Too

War poster as found at Saltcoats Heritage Centre, Saltcoats, Scotland

More posters and paintings are shared at the bottom of this entry.

Introduction:

While scanning microfiche files, digital newspapers (e.g., The Winnipeg Tribune) and my own photo collection, I come across examples of editorial cartoons, commercial advertisements, poetry, sketches, paintings and more that reflect fine craftmanship and skill and knowledge of the times.

As found in The Trib, 1944. Full page ads were common,

promoting four freedoms, Canadian-style. Details below.

Included below are items from The Tribune (January 27 - February 16, 1944) and from my personal travels... and more.

And there's nothing like a great, artfully drawn map to start the day!

The next two cartoons appeared on the Editorial page of The Trib, but the creators' signatures are not easy for me to read. I don't even have a good guess:

Robert Patterson is the artist who is helping to encourage readers to give blood. More information here re a Robert Patterson, artist/illustrator. I offer no assurance it is the same artist:

Other illustrations by the same artist have been featured here earlier

Yes, I do like great maps... and I am not alone. More to follow:

The two drawings shared here by the above artist, Will Ogilvie - could not be

located via 'quick Google search'. Photo/details re Will Ogilvie - at Wikipedia

American Book Award winner E. L. Doctorow (1986 for World's Fair) wrote the following about his father's behaviour during World war II:

My father sat in a chair near the radio and the newspapers opened in his lap to news stories with maps about the very same events being discussed by the commentators. He bought most of the papers - the Times, the Herald Tribune, the Post, the World-Telegram, even the Daily Worker. He would not read the Hearst papers.

In the movies on Saturday afternoons, after the cartoons, the Fox Movietone newsreel showed scenes from the war in Europe: big cannon muzzles afire in the night, German dive-bombers with angled wings coming out of the clouds. 

"German dive-bombers with angled wings coming out of the clouds."

Photo as found in The Winnipeg Tribune,  Feb. 16, 1944

Fox Movietone News - advert from The Tribune, Feb. 14, 1944

Click here to view "War News From Europe" Fox Movietone

Description from World's Fair continues:

You saw the bombs falling. You saw burning buildings in London. You saw people swinging bottles of champagne against the sides of ships, and diplomats getting out of cars and walking hurriedly up the steps of palaces for meetings. The war was talked about everywhere and shown in pictures...

From World's Fair, as found in Writers on World War II, edited by Mordecai Richler, page 37.

More items related to "the arts of war" are revealed below:

I see "Cuties" by E. Simms Campbell regularly as I peruse Saturday issues of The Winnipeg Tribune,  in the lengthy and artful comic section. About the cartoonist:

Elmer Simms Campbell (January 2, 1906 – January 27, 1971)[1] was an American commercial artist best known as the cartoonist who signed his work, E. Simms Campbell. He was the first African-American cartoonist published in nationally-distributed, slick magazines. He was the creator of Esky, the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire.[2] 

More about Mr. Campbell can be found on Wikipedia.

Full page promotions of Canada's four freedoms appear on occasion in The Trib. I include a look at one offering in different sizes so that the print work can be read easily and the large drawings can be seen more clearly;

The following illustration of Italy appears in ECLIPSE by Alan Moorehead:

The following posters appeared on an interior wall of the Saltcoats Heritage Centre, in the town of Saltcoats, a few miles north of Irvine, Scotland: 

Oh, she's a smart cookie! She squeezed in here twice!!

This illustration about lovely Oxo cubes was found in the Irvine Fullarton Times,  as on microfiche at the Saltcoats heritage centre. For those who are wondering... yes, I'm pretty sure there are Canadians in Combined Ops manning some of the landing crafts. Many sailors (e.g., RCNVR) trained with commandos, trained like commandos, but they were not called commandos:

The following three posters were found on file in the Irvine Library during my visit to the UK in 2014. The plaque and information sheet were spotted on the library wall during the same visit: 

The following photos were taken inside the Imperial War Museum in 2014. The magnificent museum was a mere 10-minute walk from my AirBnB, by good fortune: 

I took a photo of another poster like the one above, and it promoted the fine paintings of Major William Orpen. The photo was very poor but I was able to find an example of his work online entitled Zonnebeke (below). More can be learned about William Orpen at Wikipedia:

ZONNEBEKE (1918) (Tate)

The following photo was taken inside The Ship Inn 2014. The magnificent English pub was a mere 15-minute walk from my AirBnB, also by good fortune : ) 

For more information about and examples of 'the arts of war' as found in The Winnipeg Tribune (as well as elsewhere), please link to Editorial Cartoons, Illustrations, More (Winnipeg Tribune) (1)

And please visit 'the arts of war' under "click on Headings" in the right-hand  margin. 

Questions or comments can be directed to the Editor at gordh7700@gmail.com

Unattributed Photos GH