Background
Valtman, Edmund S. was born on May 31, 1914 in Tallinn, Estonia. Came to the United States, 1949, naturalized, 1959. Son of Johannes and Pauline Elisabet (Kukk) Valtman.
Valtman, Edmund S. was born on May 31, 1914 in Tallinn, Estonia. Came to the United States, 1949, naturalized, 1959. Son of Johannes and Pauline Elisabet (Kukk) Valtman.
He worked as an editorial cartoonist for the newspapers Eesti Sõna and Maa Sõna and studied at the Tallinn Art and Applied Art School.
Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he sold his first cartoons at age 15 to the children"s magazine Laste Rõõm. They emigrated to the United States in 1949. Once in the United States, Valtman worked for The Hartford Times from 1951 until his 1975 retirement.
He was noted for his caricatures of Cold War-era communist leaders like Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev.
lieutenant showed Fidel Castro leading a shackled, beaten-down man representing Cuba and advising Brazil "What You Need, Manitoba, Is a Revolution Like Mine!"
Valtman died in a Bloomfield, Connecticut retirement home.
Member Association American Editorial Cartoonists, National Cartoonists Society (Silver Plaque on T-Square 1962, graphic arts awards 1982, 84, painting award 1991), Connecticut Academy Fine Arts, Canton Artists Guild, West Hartford ArtLeague. M C.
Married Helmi Grunberg, July 17, 1943.