In the spring of 1931, the vibrant and tumultuous life of the celebrated artist Ralph Waldo Emerson Barton came to a tragic end in his East Midtown Manhattan penthouse. At the age of 39, the man whose caricatures had deftly captured the spirit of the Jazz Age turned a gun on himself. On May 19, 1931, Barton, a male, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the right temple. His death was a shock to the public who had come to know him through his witty and incisive illustrations that graced th
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