August 14 was the birthday of the popular Jazz Age cartoonist, illustrator and caricaturist Ralph Barton (Ralph Waldo Emerson Barton, 1891-1931). Though I'm sure I'd encountered his work in the past, my current interest in the artist stems from the fact that he illustrated the original printed edition of Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:03AM on August 14, 2025