Title: Cooling Off in the Summer [untitled].
Don Freeman (1908-1878)
Medium: Conte crayon drawing with white chalk highlights, undated, c.1935.
Stamped with artist's name and initialed "LF" Lidia Freeman the artist's wife.
Image size 10 1/8 x 13 1/4" (258 x 343 mm).
Condition: Good condition, minor overall toning. Crop marks in blue.

Don Freeman (1908-1878) painter, printmaker, cartoonist, was born in San Diego, California on August 11, 1908. He studied at the San Diego School of Fine Arts, and got a job playing the Cornet in a ship's orchestra arriving in New York City days before the Stock Market crash of 1929. He continued his art study at the Art Students League under John Sloan and Harry Wickey, it was also at the league where he learned lithography and studied graphic design. He began an on and off publication called the Newsstand - a journal of New York City, illustrated with his stories and often original lithographs. He changed the line from the New York Times to read "All the News that Fits for Prints." He was a master of caricature and capturing the humor in any situation.