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# Ralph Barton Profile Page This is a biographical profile of Ralph Barton, identified as "America's greatest home-grown caricaturist." The text emphasizes his significance as a satirical artist who created a distinctly American style of social commentary art, influenced by but superior to French caricature traditions. Key points: Barton was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and became a prominent New York-based artist known for weekly satirical illustrations in *Judge* magazine and depictions of theatrical and film celebrities. The profile celebrates his studio on 51st Street as a gathering place for cultural figures and notes his popularity for creating "brilliant caricatures" of stage and screen stars. This appears to be a professional tribute to Barton's career and artistic influence during the early 1920s.
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JUDGE, Volume 84, No. hed Weekly and pyrigh © Pie MacDonatp 3 FIRST THING one should know about Ralph Barton is that he is America’s itest- home- grown caricaturist. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he is to-day an ultra New Yorker, one of the most luminous of the smart First-nighters. He, too, created a new school in American art that is widely copied but never with the rich quality, keen satire and sure skill of its master. It isa remarkable thing that this product of our Western prairies should have a style and distinction that is distinctly French in of its qualities, but so far ahead of anything that is being done in France to-day. Few have the privilege of dropping in to Mr. Barton’s studio, on Fifty-first street just west of the Avenue, of relaxing with him before the glowing fire on a wintry after- noon, of running over his favorite books and prints. But thousands have come to look for his weekly page of brilliant caricatures in JupGe and to see, with him, the stars of the Stage and Silver Screen.