Political Cartoons: Thomas Nast's Editorial Perspective of Current Events in his Time
Thomas Nast- The Artist
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Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast immigrated to America from Landau, Germany when he was five years old. With limited education and little artistic training, he joined the art staff of Frank Leslie's Illustrated as a teenager. In 1860 Nast traveled to Italy as a war correspondent for The Illustrated London News and New York Illustrated News. Embedding himself with Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaign to liberate and unify Sicily and the southern Italian states, Nast depicted what he saw in pencil, crayon, ink, and paint in a sketchbook now in MHHM's collection.