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Rollin Kirby was born on September 04, 1875 in Galva, Illinois, United States, the only son of George Washington and Elizabeth Maddox Kirby. George Kirby, a shoe merchant, took the family to Hastings, Nebraska.
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Rollin Kirby was born on September 04, 1875 in Galva, Illinois, United States, the only son of George Washington and Elizabeth Maddox Kirby. George Kirby, a shoe merchant, took the family to Hastings, Nebraska.
Rollin Kirby attended public school in Nebraska. The boy's talent was early evident; encouraged by his mother, and hoping to be a painter, he went to New York at the age of nineteen and enrolled in the Art Students League. There he studied under John H. Twachtman and Hugh H. Breckenridge. As did many young American artists of the time, he traveled to Paris, where he enjoyed a memorable contact with James A. McNeill Whistler. He was almost equally stirred by the Dreyfus controversy, the French impressionists, and his association with the Beaux-Arts.
In 1900, Kirby exhibited his canvases at the National Academy in the United States. Nonetheless he found painting financially unrewarding. The muckraking movement was getting under way in the popular magazines, and so for the decade from 1901 to 1911 Kirby found employment as an illustrator for McClure's, Harper's, Collier's, Scribner's, Century, American, and Life.
In 1911, with the assistance of a friend, the columnist Franklin P. Adams, Kirby began his career as a newspaper cartoonist on the New York Evening Mail. A disagreement with the Mail's editor led him to move the next year to the New York Sun. His goal was the New York World and he reached it in 1913. A social cartoon, "The Trials of the Rich, " led him into a series of human-interest drawings entitled "Sights of the Town. " Forerunner to his "Metropolitan Movies, " this feature recorded the amusing but often poignant episodes that the artist observed on the sidewalks and in the doorways of the big city. Successful as these municipal vignettes were, however, Kirby had his eye on the editorial page, then conducted by Frank I. Cobb, a vigorous supporter of Wilson's New Freedom program.
In 1914 Kirby became the graphic portrayer of the World's editorial policies. Kirby made the most of his position on the country's foremost liberal editorial page. For seventeen years he flayed conservative personalities and their misdeeds, as he saw them, in local, state, national, and world affairs. He upheld progressive causes and their advocates, usually endorsing Democratic platforms and nominees and opposing those of the Republican party. Corruptionists and authoritarians at all levels, high-tariff sponsors, manipulators of finance, sectarian bigots, members of the Ku Klux Klan, isolationists, imperialists, fascists, literary and artistic censors, the social elite--all were his targets.
His most memorable creation was "Mr. Dry, " the tall, sour, long-faced, thinnosed, high-hatted, weedy figure who personified prohibition. The World battled for repeal and no little of its influence was due to Kirby's campaign of scorn and ridicule against the Anti-Saloon League and related organizations. He later spoke with near fondness for "Mr. Dry, " saying of "the old bum" that he was "almost sorry to see him go. " Among his other favorite subjects for caricaturing were Bryan, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Henry Cabot Lodge, and "Big Bill" Thompson. He revised a slogan of the Hoover Administration to read: "Two chickens in every garage. "
When the World was sold to the Scripps-Howard interests and ceased publication on February 27, 1931, Kirby said of it: "I was never once called off an issue or ordered to go light. " He drew for the World-Telegram until it became more conservative and opposed much of the New Deal. In March 1939 he resigned rather than "support a point of view which seemed many times to be unfair. " He then signed for two years with the New York Post, which gave him a wide freedom in handling subjects. But he was dissatisfied with the compensation and did not renew his contract. In 1942, at the age of sixty-seven, Kirby turned largely to freelance work. He drew cartoons and wrote some editorials for Look magazine and contributed to the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Sunday New York Times, the Nation, and Good Housekeeping.
In 1944 a hundred of Kirby's cartoons, dating from 1918 to 1940 and called "New York Between the Wars, " were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York. They depicted such developments as woman suffrage, flaming youth, the rise of the bootlegger, and "the fabulous time when skyscrapers and stocks went up together. " Notwithstanding his strong convictions, Kirby believed in correcting the record as necessary. In 1917, when Wilson sought to arm merchant ships, Kirby drew a series of cartoons picturing Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, who opposed the president, as, respectively, fleeing from the scourging sword of an outraged Columbia, a pirate aboard the Ship of State spiking the guns of the Nation's Honor, and, as leader of the "willful twelve" senators, receiving an iron cross on his breast from a German mailed fist. The last was captioned "The Only Adequate Reward. " Twenty-three years later on April 6, 1940, Kirby volunteered in a longhand statement. "My object in writing this is to try to correct as far as is possible at this late date the damage such cartoons as I made for the N. Y. World during Senator Robert La Follette's fight against this country's participation in the World War. Time has brought a better sense of values to me and I have come to see that what seemed to me at the time as the action of a willful, unpatriotic man was, on the contrary, a brave fight against an overwhelming tide of chauvinism and war hysteria. Few men have been asked to pay such a high price as Senator La Follette for their convictions. It is with a profound sense of regret and humiliation that I remember that I added my tiny bit to his burden" .
After 1943, he lived at the Shelburne Hotel in Manhattan, where he died in his sleep. Kirby believed that the cartoon should be an instrument of criticism and attack--the commendatory cartoon, while it has an occasional place, is generally weak and therefore should be a rare exception. The cartoon is an editorial and, although drawn instead of written, should be judged by what it says rather than by how it says it. He also believed that 75 percent of a cartoon is its idea--a good idea can carry "an indifferent drawing to glory, " but a good drawing cannot "rescue a bad idea. " He studied Forain and Daumier as master cartoonists and his own crayon and greasepencil style was influenced by Boardman Robinson. Although a few newspapers outside New York bought Kirby's work, his cartoons were never prepared with syndication in mind. Thus, in the words of Walter Lippmann, his editor in the late 1920's, Kirby "did not feel the devastating syndicated pressure to be noncommittal, that corrupting impulse to see the very common denominator among the prejudices of many employers". He was, in sum, his own man and artist. In addition to his work as a cartoonist, Kirby produced the section on the cartoon in the United States for the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1943) and wrote two plays, The Spin of the Wheel (1937) and As the Limb Is Bent (1938).
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Kirby was an advocate of civil liberties and supporter of women's suffrage. He opposed the political corruption and the Ku Klux Klan.
Kirby was a devoted member of the Players Club.
Kirby was a handsome, polished man, possessing the qualities of both the academician and the sportsman.
On November 6, 1903, Kirby, married, in New York City, Estelle Carter, an actress from Lebanon, Tennessee. They had one daughter. His wife died in 1943.