Don Freeman

Don Freeman was a painter, printmaker and cartoonist born in San Diego, California on August 11, 1908. He studied at the San Diego School of Fine Arts, after which he took a job onboard a ship, playing the trumpet, to get to New York City. They made port days before the Stock Market crash of 1929. Freeman continued his art study at the Art Students League under John Sloan and Harry Wickey. It was also at the League he learned lithography and studied graphic design. Freeman began an on and off publication called the Newsstand containing his stories and, often enough, original lithographs. His paper's motto was play on the New York Times famous slogan - "All the News that Fits for Prints."  He was a master of caricature and captured the humor in any situation.