Kirby studied art in New York and Paris before working as a cartoonist for the New York Mail, New York World and the New York Post. He established himself as America's leading political cartoonist after the First World War and he won the Pulitzer Prize for cartooning in 1921, 1924 and 1928. Kirby was sympathetic to woman suffrage and contributed cartoons to the Women Voter and the Suffragist. He was also an advocate of civil liberties and the New Deal and attacked political corruption and the Ku Klux Klan.
Cartoons for sale:
- THE BOGEY MAN, 1930
- £850
- 31cm x 36cm
- New York Post
- Caption Displayed
3rd Nov. 1929 - £765
- 37cm x 40cm
- New York World