DALLAS – Judge, one of the great American magazines of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was renowned for many things: its wit, its politics, its immense circulation, and its role as a launching pad for once-editor Harold Ross’ The New Yorker. But the satirical publication is perhaps best known for its stable of pioneering illustrators – among them Buster Brown creator Richard Outcault and James Montgomery Flagg, designer of the Uncle Sam “I Want YOU for U.S. Army” recruitment poster – and as one of Norman Rockwell’s earliest canvases. Indeed, Judge was high on the list of publications to which the illustrator would take his works during his ascendancy as one of America’s most cherished artists.
