Pencil cartoon of cowboy with pistol, captioned with Pickens Walker biography
Book 2, Page 134 ·1929–1934
Transcription
A pencil cartoon of a lanky cowboy in a wide-brim hat and a long vest decorated with rows of round buttons or coins, drawing a pistol pointed downward. A small cactus sketched at his right.
Beneath, the compiler has annotated in blue ink:
Pickens was interested in cartooning during High School days in Sav… He graduated from High school in Sav. in 1929. He was 17— and that fall he went to W. & L. University in Lexington Va… He graduated there in 1933.
Pickens got a job as announcer at the Sav. radio station that summer —
in 1933.
AI Notes
A pencil caricature pasted to a lined notebook page (three punch-holes at left). The cartoon shows a tall thin cowboy in a wide-brimmed hat and vest patterned with rows of round buttons or coins, holding a six-shooter pointed downward in his right hand. The figure has exaggerated long legs in chaps. A small cactus is sketched beside his right boot. Beneath the drawing, the compiler Amy FitzSimons Walker has written a biographical caption in blue ink describing Pickens’s schooling and early career. The trailing ‘in 1933’ is struck through by the writer (the date is redundant — that summer was 1933).
Amy FitzSimons Walker’s curatorial caption locates the drawing in Pickens’s Savannah high-school years (before 1929). “W. & L.” is Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. After graduating in 1933 he worked as a radio announcer in Savannah. The closing “in 1933” is lightly struck through by the writer.