Nelson Harding

Nelson Harding (born October 31, 1879, New York City; died December 30, 1944), an editorial cartoonist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, being honored in 1927 and 1928. To date (2011) he is the only cartoonist to be so honored in back-to-back years.^[1] His cited 1928 cartoon, "May His Shadow Never Grow Less," was a tribute drawn at the end of the 1927 calendar year to flier Charles Lindbergh.^[2]

Harding's work was often politically conservative by the standards of his day. He took a leading role in opposition to what some New Yorkers considered to be a threat from Bolshevism in the late 1910s, during the so-called First Red Scare. His cartoons portrayed political radicals as bomb-throwers and terrorists.^[3]

References

1. ^ ""Editorial Cartooning"". Columbia University. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Editorial-Cartooning. Retrieved 2011-10-17. 
2. ^ "Education: Pulitzer Prizes". Time. 1928-05-14. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787247,00.html. Retrieved 2011-10-17. 
3. ^ ""Red Scare: Nelson Harding - Illustrator"". City University of New York. http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/htmlcode/subjects/HARDING1.HTM. Retrieved 2011-10-17.