The Kin-der-Kids' Narrow Escape from Aunty JimJam from The Chicago Sunday Tribune
Lyonel Feininger
American, 1871–1956
(September 2) 1906
A full-page lithographed comic-strip by Lyonel Feininger that tells a comic chase story, combining newspaper entertainment with carefully composed, artful imagery.
The page reads like a small theatrical stage—rows of panels rendered in pale, watercolor-like washes, punctuated by bold black silhouettes, tilted perspectives and lively diagonal movement that push the children and their pursuer through a compact, almost architectural townscape.
An early work by Feininger that bridges popular cartooning and modernist art, using lithography, stylized form and inventive composition to expand how sequential images could function as both entertainment and avant-garde visual experiment.
Medium
Lithographed comic strip
Dimensions
page: 23 3/8 x 17 13/16" (59.4 x 45.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
260.1944.18
Palette
Exhibitions
