SI: 18-3/4" H, 14-1/2" WHitler depicted in this early 1940s piece. Gene Elderman, 1910-1963, was a political cartoonist for The Washington Post in the 1930s. He was born in Helena, Montana in 1910, where his father, and grew up in Ashland, KY with his mother, where he came to be known as Eugene. He worked as a civil engineer in a steel mill before he went to the Post in 1932, having worked as an animator. He left the Post in 1942 to serve in the U.S. Army, and was a cartoonist for the Office of War Information's "Victory" magazine. After World War II he lived in New York, where he resided until his death.