Winsor McCay Gets to Hopewell Early to Sketch the Scene
Sept 23, 2023 13:18:35 GMT -5
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Post by Sue on Sept 23, 2023 13:18:35 GMT -5
No. Artist Winsor McCay WAS NOT at the 1935 Flemington trial.
However, McCay arrived very early to the scene of the Hopewell crime on March 1, 1932.
William Randolph Hearst, Jr. drove McCay and a newspaper writer to Hopewell, New Jersey, arriving just hours after the cops were called in.
Winsor McCay was not exactly a young man when Hearst, Jr. dragged him down to Hopewell.
(McCay was in his 60s in 1932, and passed away in July of 1934.)
The wikipedia page about McCay reads:
"In 1932, McCay found himself in what he recalled as 'the wildest ride' in his life when Hearst's son "Young Bill" drove him
at 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) to the scene of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. They arrived there two hours
after the crime was first reported to police, and were able to interview the gathered police before the grounds were
closed off to the public. McCay sketched the scene, the staff, and the ladders used, which he was allowed to see up close."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsor_McCay
Information online describes the supremely talented McCay as the "father of animation."
McCay's sketches appeared in the Hearst newspaper, the New York American.
Here is an excerpt from Winsor McCay: His life and Art by John Canemaker.
According to Hearst Jr.:
"We nosed around the place. And here was the ladder laying on a low stone fence that was the perimeter of the stone
porch out in back. And that was the ladder [the kidnapper used] to go up to the window. One rung was sort of cracked.
I got Winsor, who was a draftsman if there ever was one, to draw a good picture of it."
Hearst Jr. was 80 years old in 1988 when Canemaker interviewed him for his book.
Some pages relating to McCay's time at the Hopewell estate can be viewed online in Google Books.
A picture of the Hopewell house sketched by McCay appears in Canemaker's book. One picture published on March 3, 1932
is a "rough on-the-spot" drawing, according to Canemaker.
Maurice Sendak, who claims he was very much traumatized by the Lindbergh kidnapping, provides the forward to Canemaker's book.
The stories and illustrations in Sendak's children's books reflect his own personal pain with the Lindbergh case.
Sendak's trilogy of books influenced by the LKC -- Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There.
However, McCay arrived very early to the scene of the Hopewell crime on March 1, 1932.
William Randolph Hearst, Jr. drove McCay and a newspaper writer to Hopewell, New Jersey, arriving just hours after the cops were called in.
Winsor McCay was not exactly a young man when Hearst, Jr. dragged him down to Hopewell.
(McCay was in his 60s in 1932, and passed away in July of 1934.)
The wikipedia page about McCay reads:
"In 1932, McCay found himself in what he recalled as 'the wildest ride' in his life when Hearst's son "Young Bill" drove him
at 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) to the scene of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. They arrived there two hours
after the crime was first reported to police, and were able to interview the gathered police before the grounds were
closed off to the public. McCay sketched the scene, the staff, and the ladders used, which he was allowed to see up close."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsor_McCay
Information online describes the supremely talented McCay as the "father of animation."
McCay's sketches appeared in the Hearst newspaper, the New York American.
Here is an excerpt from Winsor McCay: His life and Art by John Canemaker.
According to Hearst Jr.:
"We nosed around the place. And here was the ladder laying on a low stone fence that was the perimeter of the stone
porch out in back. And that was the ladder [the kidnapper used] to go up to the window. One rung was sort of cracked.
I got Winsor, who was a draftsman if there ever was one, to draw a good picture of it."
Hearst Jr. was 80 years old in 1988 when Canemaker interviewed him for his book.
Some pages relating to McCay's time at the Hopewell estate can be viewed online in Google Books.
A picture of the Hopewell house sketched by McCay appears in Canemaker's book. One picture published on March 3, 1932
is a "rough on-the-spot" drawing, according to Canemaker.
Maurice Sendak, who claims he was very much traumatized by the Lindbergh kidnapping, provides the forward to Canemaker's book.
The stories and illustrations in Sendak's children's books reflect his own personal pain with the Lindbergh case.
Sendak's trilogy of books influenced by the LKC -- Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There.