Jacob Burck
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Jacob Burck was a Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist. Active in the Communist movement from 1926 as a political cartoonist and muralist, Burck quit t
Burck c. 1934
"Working Class Bulwark," a cartoon by Burck from The Daily Worker, circa 1934.
"If I Should Die Before I Wake", for which Burck received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Portrait of Burck by his wife Esther c. 1935
Daily Worker
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The Daily Worker was a leftist newspaper published in Chicago and later New York City, founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists. Publication began in 1924. The publication
Jacob Burck
…movement in 1926, while still a teenager. In 1927 or 1928, Burck began to draw occasional editorial cartoons for the Communist Party's daily newspaper, The Daily Worker, as well as its monthly artistic-literary magazine, The New Masses. He went on staff at The Daily Worker full-time as cartoonist in 1929. Burck's…
No. 254 of the Daily Worker (November 7, 1927)
January 23, 1924, edition, covering the death of Vladimir Lenin.
May Day parade float with statue reading the Daily Worker
Editorial staff members of the Daily Worker, 1934. (L-R): Harry Raymond, Howard Boldt, Carl Reeve, Sender Garlin, Si Gerson, Harry Gannes, Jacob Burck, Milton Howard, and William Fuchs.