Hy Rosen Cartoons, 1964-1971
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Rosen, Hy.
- Abstract:
- 180 original editorial cartoons (1965-1967) and 39 proofs (1964, circa 1970-1971).
- Extent:
- 4.1 linear ft.
- Language:
- Majority in English , one item in French
- Preferred citation:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Hy Rosen Cartoons,
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Hy Rosen Cartoons consist of 2 series: Cartoons- original artwork and Cartoons- proofs. Cartoons- original artwork contains 180 editorial cartoons drawn by Rosen for the Albany Times-Union from 1965 to 1967. In the corner of some of Rosen's cartoons appears a small figure that acts as a commentator on the events depicted in the cartoon. Although working for a paper in the North, of particular interest are Rosen's cartoons relating to the civil rights movement. Rosen commented on civil rights related murders in the South as well as the connection between activists from the Northeast and events in the South. Also of interest are Rosen's caricatures of dysfunctional New York state government and ousted U.S. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. of Harlem.
The majority of the cartoons are dated. Rosen worked primarily in brusk and ink and pen and ink on illustration board with some pencil and screening. Notations appear in the borders. The original artwork varies in size, but earlier cartoons are generally 14 1/4" x 20 1/4" while the last year of cartoons are generally 11 1/2" x 13 1/2".
Cartoons- proofs is comprised of 39 proofs of cartoons drawn by Rosen. At the top of most is the title, "As Hy Rosen Sees It". The majority of the proofs are undated but are from approximately 1970-1971. However, 4 proofs bear dates from 1964.
- Biographical / historical:
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Hy Rosen (1923-2011) was an American editorial cartoonist and sculptor.
Born on February 10, 1923 to Russian immigrants, Hyman Joseph Rosen was an Albany native who studied at the Art Students League in New York City as well as the Chicago Art Institute. In 1945, after service in World War II, Mr. Rosen sought a job with the Albany Times-Union as a photographer (a job he held while in the military) but ended up as the paper's editorial cartoonist, a position he held for more than forty years. During his tenure at the Times Union Rosen fought for cartoonists to have increased creative control over their work. Some of his cartoons appeared under the title "As Hy Rosen Sees It" and these cartoons were syndicated nationally. Rosen retired from the Times Union in 1989 and during the early 1990s his cartoons continued to occasionally appear on Sundays. During this time he also drew a weekly cartoon for the Albany news for WNYT.
He won many awards for his cartooning work, including the Fourth Estate Award from the American Legion in 1980 and three awards from the Freedoms Foundation. In 1966 Rosen was a journalism fellow at Stanford. Two compilations of Rosen cartoons have been published: As Hy Rosen saw it : a collection of penetrating cartoon commentaries as they appeared in the Times Union (1970) and Do they tell you what to draw? : a decade of political cartoons (1980). They have also been included in Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year and From Rocky to Pataki : character and caricatures in New York politics (1998). Rosen was a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) since its founding in 1957 and served as its president in 1972.
In addition to cartooning, Rosen was an accomplished sculptor working in ceramic and bronze. From 1968 to 1970, Rosen studied sculpture at the State University of New York-Albany. The New York State Police Academy and the New York State Museum are among the organizations that have commissioned works by Rosen and his women veterans memorial can be seen at the Empire State Legislative Plaza in Albany.
Hy Rosen died in February 2011.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Mr. Hy Rosen , 1967 and 1971.
- Arrangement:
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The cartoons and are arranged chronologically with undated items appearing at the end of the series.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Art -- Cartoonists
Art -- Sculptors
New York State
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- New York (State)
Cartoonists -- United States.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Editorial cartoons -- New York (State) -- Albany.
Editorial cartoons -- United States.
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Strikes and lockouts -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cartoonists.
Sculptors.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Editorial cartoons.
Proofs (printed matter) - Names:
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Rosen, Hy. - Indexes:
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Index to cartoons
The following is a list of predominant people, places and subjects appearing in the editorial cartoons in this collection. The list is not exhaustive. Some subjects may require you to browse with alternative terms.
B= Box, F= Folder. For example: B1F1= Box 1 Folder 1.
AFL-CIO B3F2 airline industry B1F5-B2F1 Alabama B1F1 American Federation of Television and Radio Artists B3F4 Argentina B1F4 armed forces B1F3B2F4B3F5 auto industry B1F4 Baker, Bobby B3F1 Biao, Lin B2F2B2F4 Black Power B1F5B2F2 Blaine Amendment B3F4 Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich B1F4-B1F5B2F4 Brinkley, David B3F4 brotherhood B1F1 Buddhists B1F4 budget B3F1 Canada B3F5 Carmichael, Stokely B1F5B2F2 Central Intelligence Agency B3F2 China B1F3-B1F4B2F4-B3F1B3F5 civil rights B1F1B1F4-B2F1B3F3 college students B3F2B3F5-B3F6 communism B3F2 Condon-Wadlin Law B3F2-B3F3 Congress B1F4-B2F1B3F1B3F4B3F6 Congress of Racial Equality B1F5 corruption B3F3 cost of living B2F2 Cox, Harold B1F1 crime B1F5 de Gaulle, Charles B1F1-B1F4B3F3B3F5-B3F6 Democratic Party B2F3 desegregation B2F3 Dirksen, Everett B2F1B3F1 Disney, Walt B2F4 Dodd, Thomas J. B1F4B3F4B3F6 draft B1F3B3F3-B3F4 elections B1F3-B1F4B2F2-B2F3 EXPO '67 B3F5 Faisal of Saudi Arabia B1F4 Fisher, Harold B3F3 France B1F3 free speech B2F2B3F5 freedom B3F5 Fulbright, J. William B1F3-B1F4 Garrison, Jim B3F3 Geneva Convention B1F5 ghettos B2F3 Great Society B1F2B2F4 Greece B3F4 gun control B2F1 gun lobby B2F1B3F2 hate B1F1 Hershey, Lewis Blaine B3F3 Ho Chi Minh B1F2B1F5B2F3B3F6 Hoffa, Jimmy B1F5 Hoover, J. Edgar B3F2 housing B2F1 Humphrey, Hubert B2F2 hunger B2F4B3F5 Huntley, Chet B3F4 Illia, Arturo Umberto B1F4 India B2F4 inflation B1F2B1F5B2F3 Israel B3F6B3F8 Javits, Jacob B3F8 Javits-Kuchel Bill B3F4 Jews B3F5 Johnson, Luci B. B2F1 Johnson, Lyndon Baines B1F2B1F4-B3F4B3F6 justice B1F1 Kennedy, Jacqueline B2F4 Kennedy, John F. B2F4B3F3 Kennedy, Robert F. B1F4-B2F2B2F4B3F3B3F8 King Jr., Martin Luther B3F4 Kosygin, Alexey B1F4-B1F5B3F6 Ku Klux Klan B1F1 Ky, Nguyen Cao B1F2-B1F4 liberty B3F5 Lindsay, John B1F4 Liuzzo, Viola B1F1 LSD B1F3 Marshall, Thurgood B3F6 mass murder B1F5 McKissick, Fred B. B1F5 Meany, George B3F2 Medicare B1F5 Meredith, James B3F3 Middle East B3F5-B3F6 military B3F5 minimum wage B2F3 miniskirt B2F2B3F4 Mississippi B1F1B1F4B2F3B3F3 morality B3F2 Morse, Wayne B1F4 Moyers, Bill B2F4 Nader, Ralph B1F4 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People B1F5 National Students Association B3F2 NATO B1F2B1F4 Nazism B2F2B3F4 New York (State) B1F4-B1F5B2F2-B2F3B3F1-B3F4B3F7-B3F8 New York City B1F4 New York Constitutional Convention B3F4B3F6 New York Legislature B1F4B3F2 New York lottery B3F8 Nickerson, Eugene B3F8 Nixon, Richard M. B3F4B3F6 nuclear weapons B2F4 O'Connor, Frank D. B1F5B2F3B3F8 oil B3F6 Olympics B1F5 peace B1F5B3F2B3F4B3F6B3F8 police B1F5 politics B1F1B1F5B2F2-B2F3B3F2B3F4-B3F5 pollution B3F2B3F4 poverty B1F1B2F3 Powell, Adam Clayton B2F3-B3F4 Price, Cecil B1F4 prices B2F1 prisoners of war B1F5 public employees B3F2-B3F3 railroad industry B3F5 Reagan, Ronald B3F6B3F8 religion B1F1B1F3 Republican Party B2F3B3F4B3F8 Reuther, Walter B3F2 Rivers, L. Mendel B3F3 Rockefeller, Nelson B2F3B3F1-B3F2B3F4-B3F5B3F8 Rockwell, George Lincoln B2F2 Romney, George W. B3F2B3F4B3F6B3F8 Roosevelt Jr., Franklin D. B2F2-B2F3B3F8 Rusk, Dean B1F3B1F5B3F2 Russell, Bertrand B3F5 Samuels, Howard J. B2F3B3F8 segregation B1F5 Shaw, Clay B3F3 Sinyavsky Daniel case B1F2 Smith, Howard W. B1F5 socialism B1F2 South Africa B2F3 South America B3F4 Soviet Union B1F5B2F4B3F2B3F5-B3F6 space exploration B1F4B3F1B3F4-B3F5 sports B1F5 Stalin, Svetlana B3F4 steel industry B2F1 stock market B2F2 strikes B1F5-B2F1B3F1-B3F5 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee B1F5 Suharto B1F4 Sukarno B1F4B3F2 Supreme Court B3F6 Syria B3F1B3F6 taxes B1F4B2F3B3F1-B3F2 teachers B3F5 Teamsters B3F2 Thant, U. B2F3-B2F4 The Beatles B2F2 The Death of a President B2F4 The Negro Family B2F3 Travia, Anthony J. B3F3-B3F4 Twiggy B3F3 U.S. Constitution B2F1 U.S. Flag B3F5 UFOs B1F2 unions B1F5-B2F1B3F2-B3F3 United Nations B3F8 universities B1F4 Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch B2F3 Vietnam War B1F2-B1F3B1F5B2F2-B2F4B3F2-B3F6 violence B2F1B3F2 voting B3F1B3F3-B3F4 voting rights B2F3 war B2F3 Warsaw Pact B1F4 Westmoreland, William C. B3F4 Wilkins, Roy B1F5 Wilson, Harold B1F5B3F5 Zedong, Mao B1F2-B1F3B1F5-B3F1B3F5-B3F6
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Hy Rosen Cartoons,
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Special Collections Research CenterSyracuse University LibrariesBird Library, Room 600Syracuse, NY 13244, United States
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