NAST, THOMAS

1840–1902, American caricaturist, illustrator, and painter, b. Landau, Germany. He was brought to the United States in 1846. He began his career as a draftsman for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly. He was sent to England by the New York Illustrated News, served (1860) as artist correspondent in Garibaldi's campaign, contributing sketches to English, French, and American papers, and attracted wide attention with his cartoons of the Civil War, published in Harper's Weekly. He is best known for his clever and forceful political and personal cartoons, which were instrumental in breaking the corrupt Tweed Ring in New York City. It was Nast who created the tiger, the elephant, and the donkey as political symbols of Tammany Hall, the Republican party, and the Democratic party. Nast was also an illustrator of note and a painter in oil. He died at Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he was American consul general.

See study by M. Keller (1968).

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The Congressional Career of Thomas Francis Bayard, 1869-1885
Book by Charles Callan Tansill; Georgetown University Press, 1946
Subjects: Bayard, Thomas F--(Thomas Francis)--1828-1898, Legislators--United States--Biography, United States--Politics and government--1865-1898
...182 -3, 185 -90, 201 , 220 , 337 Murphy, Tom, 59 - 60 , 63 -4 Myers, Gustavus, 238 N Napoleon, Louis, 17 Nast, Thomas, 135 , 292 , 297 Navy, 84 , 304 Negro equality, 32 , 66 , 100 Negro problems, 16 , 20 -1, 32 -3, 35 , 40...
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Boss Platt and His New York Machine: A Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas C. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others
Book by Harold F. Gosnell; University of Chicago Press, 1924
Subjects: New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-, Platt, Thomas Collier--1833-1910, Roosevelt, Theodore--1858-1919
THE SENATORIAL SUICIDE Cartoon by Thomas Nast, Harper Weekly , July 2, 1881, Harper and Brothers
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Dylan Thomas No Man More Magical
Book by Andrew Sinclair; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975
Subjects: Poets, Welsh--20th Century--Biography, Thomas, Dylan--1914-1953
...128; John Deakin/ The Conde Nast Publications Limited, 187...Lee Miller Penrose/ The Conde Nast Publications Limited, 116...Dent and Sons Limited, Dylan Thomas: The Poems , edited by Daniel...Morning , 1954 broadcasts by Dylan Thomas; Portrait of the Artist as...
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T. S. Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Book by Randy Malamud; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns)--1888-1965--Dramatic Production, Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns)--1888-1965--Dramatic Works, Verse Drama, American--History And Criticism
Napier, Frank, 70 , 73 , 93 Napier, John, 269 , 270 Nast, Thomas, 48 Nehemiah, 59 Nesbitt, Cathleen, 115 , 116 , 120 , 121 Newton, Eric, 54 Newton, Richard, 141 , 143 Nicholl, Diana...
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Tom Paine: America's Godfather, 1737-1809
Book by W. E. Woodward; E. P. Dutton, 1945
Subjects: Paine, Thomas--1737-1809
Thomas A. Edison breaking ground for the Paine Memorial House at New Rochelle, New York, May 30, 1925. At Mr. Edisons left is President Van der Weyde of the Paine Association and at his right is Cyril Nast, the Treasurer of the Association.
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The Top Ten Editorial Cartoonists
Journal article; Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Vol. 53, 1998
Subjects: Berryman, Clifford (1869-1949), Cartoonists, Editorial cartoons, Journalism, Keppler, Joseph (1838-94), Kirby, Rollin (1875-1952), Nast, Thomas (1840-1902), Personal profiles
...limited to a community of ten, would have to include: Thomas Nast (1840-1902), an icon of editorial cartoonists, who...Claus. Joseph Keppler (1838-94), a contemporary of Nast, had his own unique style and satiric commentary that...
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Merryland: Gender and Power in an Eighteenth-Century Pornotopia
Journal article by Sharon O'Toole Dubois; Utopian Studies, Vol. 11, 2000
Subjects: Merryland (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Patriarchy--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex role in literature--Analysis, Sexism and literature--Analysis, Stretzer, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in literature--Analysis
...The person who called himself Thomas Stretzer strategically rectified...Routledge, 1995. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (1651). New York...Indiana UP, 1991. 1-47. Nast, Heidi J. and Steve Pile...Beacon Press, 1993. Stretzer, Thomas. Merryland. New York: Robin...
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A "dude and Pharisee": Cartoon Attacks on Harper's Weekly Editor George William Curtis and the Mugwumps in the Presidential Campaign of 1884
Journal article by Harlen Makemson; Journalism History, Vol. 29, 2004
Subjects: Curtis, George William (1824-1892), Editors, Harpers Weekly, History, Journalism, Magazines, Presidential elections, Republican Party, Social criticism & satire
...through the political cartoons of Thomas Nast, who was a visible force in what...independents: Curtis, Harpers cartoonist Thomas Nast, former secretary of the Interior...organ grinder with his monkey, Thomas Nast, leashed to him. Cartoonist Grant...
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Drawing Civil War Soldiers: Volunteers and the Draft in Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1861-64
Journal article by Martin Kuhn; Journalism History, Vol. 32, 2006
Subjects: American Civil War, Editorial cartoons, Illustrations, Military draft, Newspapers, Riots
...were credited with having played. Thomas Nast was the most notable illustrator...7 Abraham Lincoln commented, "Thomas Nast has been our best recruiting sergeant...rebellion?" He responded, "I think Thomas Nast. He did as much as any one man...
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Cartoons as a Teaching Tool in Journalism History: Linking Print Heritage with Modern Technology
Journal article by S. L. Harrison; Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Vol. 53, 1998
Subjects: Editorial cartoons, History, Journalism
...cartoonists can be THIS 1871 CARTOON by Thomas Nast in Harpers Weekly portrays the real...electorate to do something about it. Nast typically devoted a full page to...mass audience. Adalbert Volck and Thomas Nast emerged in the rid-1800s. Both...
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Publish and Be Damned
Magazine article by Mark Bryant; History Today, Vol. 56, February 2006
Subjects: Animators--Behavior, Cartoonists and animators--Behavior, Cartoonists--Behavior, Nast, Thomas--Behavior, Political cartoons
...be seen in the work of Thomas Nast (1840-1902)--known...cartoonists altogether. Thomas Nast was born in 1840 in Landau...cartoonist of his day. Like Nast he attacked political...in 1897 Republican Boss Thomas Platt tried to introduce...
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Hell on Earth: Richard Cork Is Moved by a Disturbing Reflection of Our Troubled Times
Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 133, March 29, 2004
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Exhibitions, Art--United Kingdom, Hirschhorn, Thomas--Exhibitions
...of Our Troubled Times. by Richard Cork Thomas Hirschhorns reputation as a Swiss artist...the sleek, untroubled entrance to Conde Nast International next door. amp;#91...Hirschhorn holds up for our inspection. Thomas Hirschhorns Unfinished Walls is at the...
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A Friend Writes
Magazine article by Thomas Kunkel; American Journalism Review, Vol. 20, September 1998
Subjects: Journalists--Conduct of life, The New Yorker (Periodical)--Finance
A friend writes by Thomas Kunkel Why we all have a vested interest...magazines, next year moves into the Conde Nast orbit--and into its new building on...be one of those, too. Lets hope so. Thomas Kunkel is editor and director of the Project...
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Authenticity Crisis, Baby
Magazine article by Thomas Frank; The Nation, Vol. 264, February 3, 1997
Subjects: Alternative rock music--Criticism and interpretation
Authenticity Crisis, Baby. by Thomas Frank The last few weeks of 1996 must have been vexing indeed for...with Hachette Filipacchi, and now there are rumblings about Conde Nast, but that doesnt stop Lauren the younger from editorializing about...
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Why Political Cartoonists Sell out; in the Rave for National Fame, They Ignore What Matters at Home
Magazine article by Lee Judge, Richard Samuel West; Washington Monthly, Vol. 20, September 1988
Subjects: Cartoonists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fisher, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political cartoons--Analysis
...breathing, take-no-prisoners style. Thomas Nast ofHarpers Weekly led the way. While Nast favored national politics in his work, he achieved...pockets of Tweed henchmen. In 1870, an outraged Nast began a blistering graphic assault on Tweed...
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Santa Springs from the Pens of Moore, Nast
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 21, 2002
...springs from the pens of Moore, Nast Byline: Martha E. Boltz, SPECIAL...Moore and a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast. There is no indication that the...German-born political cartoonist. Thomas Nast was born in Landau in 1840, and...
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'Shopaholic' Won't Take Manhattan; Film Based on Best-Selling Books Is Tackier Than a Fake Louis Vuitton
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 13, 2009
Subjects: Kinsella, Sophie
...line-focused publisher; and John Lithgow is the founder of the magazine empire, which is rather like Conde Nast. Kristin Scott Thomas is pitch-perfect as the editor of the fashion magazine for which Rebecca would really like to work; Leslie...
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A Comic Culture: Series Illustrates America's Long Love Affair with Cartoon Strips
Newspaper article by Patrick Butters; The Washington Times, May 14, 1997
...have a powerful effect on society. Think, too, of Thomas Nast and Boss Tweed. Even in this age of the computer, single...would look at "them damn pictures" that cartoonist Thomas Nast published in Harpers Weekly. When President John F...
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St. Nicholas Day
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 6, 2005
...The American artist and famous political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, is generally credited with creating the American image...white, with flowing white hair and beard. In fact, Thomas Nast secularized Santa Claus to suit the widely diverse religious...
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A Missed Chance to Teach a Lesson
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 7, 2006
...suffered boils and warts at the hand of the great newspaper cartoonist, Thomas Nast. "Stop them damn pictures," the old Tammany tiger told his hit men...to duck. Wesley Pruden is editor in chief of The Times. Tweed, by Nast. NO CREDIT
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encyclopedia articles on: Nast Thomas  - 6 results

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Nast, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NAST, THOMAS 1840 1902, American caricaturist, illustrator...corrupt Tweed Ring in New York City. It was Nast who created the tiger, the elephant, and...Republican party, and the Democratic party. Nast was also an illustrator of note and a painter...
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Periodical
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Walter Scott, Thomas Macaulay, Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, and William...Philadelphia, 1775 76), edited by Thomas Paine , and the United States Magazine...Curtis wrote famous editorials and Thomas Nast drew cartoons; and the Independent...
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Tweed, William Marcy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Times of evidence of wholesale graft revealed by M. J. ORourke, a new county bookkeeper. The effective cartoons of Thomas Nast aroused public indignation. A committee of 70, organized to fight Tammany, elected most of its candidates in 1871...
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Cartoon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of 1871 and 1873, when the power of Tammany Hall was broken and Boss Tweed imprisoned largely through the efforts of Thomas Nast and his cartoons for Harpers Weekly. In 1922 the first Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning was won by Rollin Kirby...
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Morristown
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the American Revolution); and the courthouse (1826). Other notable residents of Morristown were the cartoonist Thomas Nast , the writer Bret Harte , and the humorist Frank R. Stockton . Morristown National Historical Park (see National Parks...
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