One-Shot Wonders: Humors of Spring Fashions by William Glackens, 1898

 

I've never really warmed up to either of the Glackens brothers, Willam or Louis, as cartoonists. Their work seems rather stiff to me. But William made an important mark in fine art -- he was one of the founders of the highly influential Ashcan School of art; a school originated by a number of artists who kept their bread buttered as cartoonists. Good on ya, Will.

Here's a full pager by William Glackens that ran in the New York Sunday World on March 27 1898. Befitting springtime, Glackens pokes fun at the inevitable appearance of new fashions that bloom along with the flowers that time of the year.