1941.02.14 “Vot Could Be Sweeter?”
by Sam Nash, Jr. (1906-1952)
11 x 15 in., ink on paper
Coppola Collection

A prolific young artist as a child, Sam Nash had a long career as the editorial cartoonist for the Tyler Courier-Times-Telegraph, Tyler TX.

A 1941 Valentine motif. An attack on Greece by Italy in October 1940 was turned back. A Greek counterattack threatened Italian positions in the Balkans. Germany then decided to intervene in the Balkans in order to secure a southeastern flank for military operations against the Soviet Union. Hello, darlingk… ve are home.