I’ve always felt that you can say more with one vivid cartoon than you can with a lot of heavy words. — Viktor Schreckengost
Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019
Viktor Schreckengost created Apocalypse ’42 a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This image of a frightened horse bearing Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, and a figure of Death across the globe was made to protest the rise of fascism. The drips of bloodred glaze around the horse’s head and hooves were an unintentional effect of the firing process.
- Title
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Apocalypse ’42
- Artist
- Date
- 1942
- Location
- Dimensions
- 15 3⁄8 x 20 3⁄8 x 8 1⁄8 in. (39.1 x 51.8 x 20.6 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of the artist
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- terracotta and glaze with engobe
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Portrait male – Hitler, Adolf – caricature
- Portrait male – Mussolini – caricature
- Religion – New Testament – Last Judgment
- Allegory – civic – fascism
- Allegory – death
- Object Number
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1985.92.1
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
