Is Not This Only Another Form of "Monopoly"?, from Puck
1886
Medium
Color lithograph on newsprint
Dimensions
20.8 × 22 cm (8 1/4 × 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129236
Art Historical Context
In 1886, during America's Gilded Age—a time of rapid industrialization and growing economic inequality—artist A. B. Schultz created *Is Not This Only Another of "Monopoly"?* for *Puck*, the era's premier satirical magazine. This color lithograph on newsprint, measuring just 20.8 × 22 cm, captures the public's frustration with powerful monopolies like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust. Puck's cartoons were bold voices against corruption, using humor and exaggeration to critique robber barons and their grip on railroads, oil, and steel. Schultz's work exemplifies the chromolithography te...