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INTRODUCTION
Caption for the image: Herb Block.
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his exhibition features original work by the Pulitzer Prize winning
political cartoonist Herb Block and draws from the generous gift of 14,000
original drawings and more than 50,000 preparatory sketches donated to
the Library of Congress by the Herb Block Foundation in 2002. The exhibition's
central theme, entitled "Get Out the Vote," chronicles off-year
elections from 1946 to 1994. The exhibition also focuses on six major
themes of enduring importance to Herblock that continue to resonate in
American
society today: ethics, environment, extremism, the Middle East, privacy/security,
and war. In addition to the final cartoons, rough sketches for finished
drawings are included in an exhibition for the first time. The exhibited
works cover most of the presidential administrations from the 1940s through
the 1990s. In true Herblock form, the cartoons critique and comment on
Democrats and Republicans alike.