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Curatorial Narrative In the midst of World War I, Carey Cartoon Service's "Thanksgiving is Coming" (1914) emerged as a scathing commentary on the American psyche. As a prime example of political cartooning, this work exemplifies the artist's mastery of fine brushwork and chromatic restraint, yielding a visual atmosphere that is at once satirical and eerily prescient. The palette, characterized by muted reds, greens, blues, beiges, and browns, imbues the scene with a sense of Modernist sobriety, underscoring the artist's keen awareness of the era's tumultuous undercurrents.When scaled to 63x44 inches, "Thanksgiving is Coming" assumes an architectural presence that profoundly influences its surroundings. The composition's spatial rhythm, orchestrated by the artist's deliberate deployment of negative space, generates a sense of depth that reverberates through the interior environment. As the chromatic structure comes into focus, the pa