Russell T. Limbach

Russell Limbach, known as “Butch,” was born in Massillon, Ohio. After making his first lithographs as a teenager in a large commercial house, he attended the Cleveland School of Art, 1922–26. He quit and worked in Cleveland in a shop-ad agency for a few years. After he was fired, he went to work for the publicity department of the Union Trust Company. In 1929 and 1930 he traveled to Europe, visiting Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. Beginning in 1931, he made political cartoons for periodicals such as the Cleveland Magazine and the radical leftist publications the <em>New Masses</em> and the...