An Armistice Day Tribute

Clifford Berryman (1869B1949)
November 11, 1928
Pen and ink over graphite under drawing on paper
Probably published in The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), November 11, 1928
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the artist, 1945 (58A.6)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05578 ]

Clifford Berryman made this drawing on Armistice Day, ten years after the truce of November 11, 1918, that ended World War I. He depicts Uncle Sam standing before a garlanded tomb and paying his respects to Americans who served in that conflict. A Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and Washington institution, Berryman used fine pen and ink lines and cross hatching to render the figure, tomb, and classical backdrop to create a solemn mood that commemorates the first World War=s end, and the service and sacrifices by soldiers of America=s armed forces. In 1954 Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day to honor all American veterans.