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Edmund Siegfried Valtman - ‘I can’t believe my eyes’

‘I can’t believe my eyes’ (1991)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
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Per the Instrument of Gift, Edmund Valtman dedicated "to the public all my intellectual property rights, including copyrights throughout the world, in the Collection; however, I reserve to myself all rights, title, and interest I may have in and to all of the intellectual property associated with the Collection for my lifetime." Mr. Valtman died in 2005
Edmund Siegfried Valtman

Edmund Siegfried Valtman was an Estonian and American editorial cartoonist and winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he sold his first cartoons at age 15 to the children's magazine Laste Rõõm. He worked as an editorial cartoonist for the newspapers Eesti Sõna and Maa Sõna under the name Vallot and studied at the Tallinn Art and Applied Art School. When the USSR reoccupied Estonia in 1944, he and his wife fled the country with the retreating Nazi troops and then spent the next four years in a displaced persons camp in Germany, which was still under the control of Allied occupation forces. They emigrated to the United States in 1949, first to New Jersey and then to Hartford, Connecticut.

Once in the US, Valtman worked for The Hartford Times from 1951 until his 1975 retirement. He was noted for his caricatures of Cold War–era communist leaders like Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his August 31, 1961 cartoon. It showed Fidel Castro leading a shackled, beaten-down man representing Cuba and advising Brazil "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine!"

Valtman died in a Bloomfield, Connecticut retirement home.

More Artworks by Edmund Siegfried Valtman (View all 41 Artworks)

The old man and the sea

The old man and the sea (1972)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
‘He isn’t even looking this way!’

‘He isn’t even looking this way!’ (1978)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
‘Don’t put up any resistance! Just keep in step’

‘Don’t put up any resistance! Just keep in step’ (1973)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
The flights at night

The flights at night (1976)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
‘Don’t start a fight. I love you and I want to settle this thing peacefully’

‘Don’t start a fight. I love you and I want to settle this thing peacefully’ (1961)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
‘We want the Olympics to be a pure sporting event — not an opportunity for the Western news media to lionize dissidents and to play politics’

‘We want the Olympics to be a pure sporting event — not an opportunity for the Western news media to lionize dissidents and to play politics’ (1980)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
‘But don’t you see, If the Democratic Party is to stay young and vigorous we just had to drop the abortion plank’

‘But don’t you see, If the Democratic Party is to stay young and vigorous we just had to drop the abortion plank’ (1972)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
‘OK, I’m ready and willing to carry this out’

‘OK, I’m ready and willing to carry this out’ (1976)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
The iceman cometh

The iceman cometh (1980)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
Viewing with concern

Viewing with concern (1962)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
What you need, man, is a revolution like mine

What you need, man, is a revolution like mine (1961)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
‘Don’t look now, but I’m afraid somebody is following us’

‘Don’t look now, but I’m afraid somebody is following us’ (1977)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
Getting it out of his system

Getting it out of his system (1954)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
Idi Amin

Idi Amin (1989)

Edmund Siegfried Valtman (Estonian, 1914 – 2005)
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