New Mexico Artist’s Sculpture
Native New Mexican, Bill Mauldin is recognized by many as American history’s greatest wartime cartoonist.
The self-proclaimed “hillbilly from New Mexico” gained national fame at an early age through his Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon series about two average soldiers named Willie & Joe. This Purple Heart recipient now rests in Arlington National Cemetery but his piquant artistic works continue to inspire and educate soldiers, veterans and civilians alike. When acquired, it was worth $29,000 and remains on display in the New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial Museum. 
One of Mauldin’s first pieces, “Cavalry Sergeant” was his favorite sculpture and cartoon. It depicts a “grieving cavalry master sergeant shooting his beloved disabled Jeep, just as a grieving cowboy would once have shot a beloved disabled horse.”
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