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Fred L. Packer
Frederick Little Packer (January 4, 1886 – December 8, 1956) was an American illustrator and political cartoonist. Born in Los Angeles, he was educated at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and the Chicago Art Institute. He worked for the ''Los Angeles Examiner'', ''San Francisco Call'', and from 1919 to 1931 worked as a commercial artist in New York. He returned to newspaper work on the ''New York Journal'' in 1932, and in 1933 joined the ''Daily Mirror''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning The Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary is one of the fourteen Pulitzer Prizes that is annually awarded for journalism in the United States. It is the successor to the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning awarded from 1922 t ... in 1952. Gallery References * 1886 births 1956 deaths American editorial cartoonists Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners Artists from Los Angeles Artists from New York City 20th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Art Institute
The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and list of largest art museums, largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 million people annually. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, ''A Sunday on La Grande Jatte'', Pablo Picasso's ''The Old Guitarist'', Edward Hopper's ''Nighthawks (painting), Nighthawks'', and Grant Wood's ''American Gothic''. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research. As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Examiner
The ''Los Angeles Examiner'' was a newspaper founded in 1903 by William Randolph Hearst in Los Angeles, California. The afternoon ''Los Angeles Herald-Express'' and the morning ''Los Angeles Examiner'', both of which had been publishing in the city since the turn of the 20th century, merged in 1962. For a few years after this merger, the ''Los Angeles Herald Examiner'' claimed the largest afternoon-newspaper circulation in the country, publishing its last edition on November 2, 1989. Founding The first edition was issued on Sunday, December 13, 1903, under the business managership of L. C. Strauss, who had managed the New York City office of the ''San Francisco Examiner,'' the first Hearst-owned newspaper. It was predicted to be Democratic Party of the United States, Democratic in politics and to compete with the Republican Party of the United States, Republican-supporting ''Los Angeles Times,'' another morning newspaper. The ''Examiner'' published a preview edition on Friday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Call
''The San Francisco Call'' was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California. Because of a succession of mergers with other newspapers, the paper variously came to be called ''The San Francisco Call & Post'', the ''San Francisco Call-Bulletin'', ''San Francisco News-Call Bulletin'', and the ''News-Call Bulletin'' before the name was finally retired after the business was purchased by the ''San Francisco Examiner''. History Between December 1856 and March 1895 ''The San Francisco Call'' was named ''The Morning Call'', but its name was changed when it was purchased by John D. Spreckels. In the period from 1863 to 1864 Mark Twain worked as one of the paper's writers. It was headquartered at Newspaper Row. The ''Morning Call'' was reported purchased by Charles M. Shortridge of the ''San Jose Mercury'' for $360,000 in January 1895. Shortridge became the sole proprietor and editor. He was elected to the California state legislature in 1898 representing the 28th district (San J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Daily Mirror
The ''New York Daily Mirror'' was an American morning tabloid newspaper first published on June 24, 1924, in New York City by the William Randolph Hearst organization as a contrast to their mainstream broadsheets, the ''Evening Journal'' and ''New York American'', later consolidated into the ''New York Journal American''. It was created to compete with the ''New York Daily News'' which was then a sensationalist tabloid and the most widely circulated newspaper in the United States. Hearst preferred the broadsheet format and sold the ''Mirror'' to an associate in 1928, only to buy it back in 1932. Hearst hired Philip Payne away from the ''Daily News'' as managing editor of the ''Mirror''. Payne's circulation building stunts ranged from reviving the sensational Hall-Mills murder case to sponsoring and being a passenger on the ''Old Glory'', transatlantic flying record attempt, in which he was killed. Early on, several bright young writers and photographic journalists joined the ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Editorial Cartooning
The Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary is one of the fourteen Pulitzer Prizes that is annually awarded for journalism in the United States. It is the successor to the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning awarded from 1922 to 2021. History It has been awarded since 1922 for a distinguished editorial cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect. Since 1980, finalists (usually two) have been announced in addition to the winner. Only two comic strips have been awarded the prize: ''Doonesbury'' by Garry Trudeau in 1976 and ''Bloom County'' by Berkeley Breathed in 1987. No winner was selected in 2021, which drew controversy. In 2022, the prize was superseded by the revamped category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. List of winners Repeat winners Through 2017, eighteen people have won the Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer twice, and five of tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1952. Journalism awards *Public Service: ** ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', for its investigation and disclosures of widespread corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau and other departments of the government. * Local Reporting: ** George De Carvalho of the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', for his stories of a "ransom racket" extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relatives held in Red China. *National Reporting: ** Anthony Leviero of ''The New York Times'', for his exclusive article of April 21, 1951, disclosing the record of conversations between President Truman and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island in their conference of October, 1950. * International Reporting: ** John M. Hightower of the Associated Press, for the sustained quality of his coverage of news of international affairs during the year. * Editorial Writing: ** Louis La Coss of the ''St. Louis Globe-Democrat'', for his editorial entitled, " Low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Editorial Cartoonists
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Editorial Cartooning Winners
Pulitzer may refer to: *Joseph Pulitzer, a 20th century media magnate * Pulitzer Prize, an annual U.S. journalism, literary, and music award *Pulitzer (surname) * Pulitzer, Inc., a U.S. newspaper chain *Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization for journalists See also *Politzer (other) *Politz (other) Politz or Pölitz may refer to: * Politz an der Elbe, a town in North Bohemia, now a district of Děčín, Czech Republic * Politz an der Mettau, a city in north Bohemia, Czech Republic * Politz Day School of Cherry Hill, a private Jewish school in ... * Pollitz, Germany {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists From Los Angeles
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
