GEORGE BENJAMIN LUKS “Forbidden Fruit”

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GEORGE BENJAMIN LUKS.
'Forbidden Fruit.' Comic strip, most likely for The New York World, late 1890s. Watercolor and ink. 340x275 mm; 13 1/2x11 inches. Signed 'George B. Luks' on left of fourth panel. Matted.

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An amusing comment on literary censorship by one of the important members of New York's Ashcan School. After working on the staff of the Philadelphia Press, Luks left for New York City to work for the Sunday comic supplement of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. When William Randolph Hearst hired R. F. Outcault out from under Pulitzer to draw 'The Yellow Kid' for Hearst's American, Luks drew a competing weekly 'Yellow Kid' page for the World. The term 'yellow journalism' was coined to describe the fierce competition between Pulitzer and Hearst during the Spanish American War and has come to define all sensationalist journalism.