Boardman Robinson

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Boardman Robinson

Born	September 6, 1876(1876-09-06)
Died	September 5, 1952 (aged 75)
Nationality	Canadian-American
Occupation	Artist, illustrator and cartoonist

Boardman Robinson

Boardman Robinson (September 6, 1876 - September 5, 1952) was a Canadian-American artist, illustrator and cartoonist.

Robinson first studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He would later go on to study at the Académie Colarossi and the École des Beaux-Arts, both in Paris, where he was influenced by the political cartooning of Honoré Daumier. Upon returning to the United States, Robinson worked as a cartoonist, with his cartoons appearing in the New York Times and the New York Tribune among others.

In 1915, Robinson travelled to Eastern Europe with the journalist John Reed and saw first hand the effects of World War I on countries such as Russia, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece. He illustrated Reed's account of the journey in the book The War in Eastern Europe (1916). On his return from Europe, Robinson worked at the socialist journal The Masses. His highly political cartoons as well as the general anti-war stance of The Masses was deemed to have violated the recently passed Espionage Act of 1917, and The Masses had to cease publication. Robinson, along with the other defendants were acquitted on October 5, 1918. Following The Masses, Robinson became a contributing editor to The Liberator and the New Masses, working with former Masses editor Max Eastman.