Puck #436
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "A Musical Melange," Bernhard Gillam crafts a strikingly surreal political satire where John Logan stands at the intersection of the White House and the U.S. Treasury, leading a ragged chorus of tramps—each named for real historical figures like J. Gould, T. Platt, and James G. Blaine—while carrying hand-pails marked 'Empty Hopes.' The scene, rendered in Gillam’s distinctive style with full authorial hand, unfolds with a blend of irony and theatricality, underscored by Eugene Zimmerman’s sharp, expressive cover art.
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John Logan holds a paper that states "Logan Speech at Boston July 1885." He's standing in the street between the White House and the U.S. Treasury, leading a chorus of tramps identified as "J. Gould, Field, Mahone, Roach, Riddleberger, T. Platt, Ex leader [James G. Blaine], Robeson, Keifer, Chandler, Brady and Dorsey," and an unidentified blind man who looks like Benjamin F. Butler. Some carry battered hand-pails labelled 'Empty Hopes.'
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