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York 1907: Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883. After graduating from the University of California, in 1904, he drew sports cartoons for San Francisco newspapers until 1907 and for the New York Evening Mail from 1907 to 1921. He started syndication work in 1915, developing such features as "Boob Mc-Nutt," "Foolish Questions," and "Crazy Inventions." From 1938 he did editorial cartoons for the New York Sun and then for the New York Journal American.
At the 1900 Exposition in Paris an entire building was given up to the display of Rodin's works. In addition to his marble and bronze figures were many water-color drawings and etchings. Further illustrating the versatility of his genius are a number of writings on various subjects, of which the most notable is (Les cathedrales de France1 (1914). Consult Marx, (Auguste Rodin, Ceramiste' (Paris 1907) ; Lawton, F., 'Life and Work of Auguste Rodin' (New York 1907) ; Dirks, R., 'Auguste Rodin> (Paris 1913) ; Bulletin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Supplement (New York, May 1912) ; Harris, F., (Contemporary Portraits' (New York 1915) ; Benedite, L., 'Rodin' (N. Y. 1927).
Robinson studied in Boston at the Massachu setts School of Art, and in Paris. In 1907 hi settled in New York City, where he became illustrator and political cartoonist for the Morning Telegraph (1907-1910) and the Tribune (1910 1914). In 1915, Metropolitan Magazine sent him with the journalist John Reed, to Europe to covei World War I. They collaborated in publishing The War in Eastern Europe (1916).
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