Apocalypse+'42

Date: 1942
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1985/1985.92.1_1a.jpg&max=460 width="335" height="263" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21944"]] || Title: **Apocalypse '42**

Artist: **Viktor Schreckengost** Born: Sebring, Ohio 1906 Died: Tallahassee, Florida 2008

Medium: modeled and glazed terra cotta with engobe Dimensions: 15 3/8 x 20 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. (39.1 x 51.8 x 20.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the artist

Accession: 1985.92.1 || "I've always felt that you can say more with one vivid cartoon than you can with a lot of heavy words." Artist's statement
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Viktor Schreckengost created //Apocalypse '42// a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This image of a frightened horse bearing Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, and a figure of Death across the globe was made to protest the rise of fascism. The drips of bloodred glaze around the horse's head and hooves were an unintentional effect of the firing process.
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Artist Biography SAAM Collections Page
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Viktor Schreckengost Foundation