Don Barclay’s Caricatures

Caricaturist, cartoonist, animator and actor Don Barclay was among the creative types who gravitated to the emerging arts community in Scottsdale, Arizona, in the latter half of the 20th century. With the likes of famous painter Philip C. Curtis, Barclay contributed to elevating the cultural scene beyond merely local prominence.

Barclay arrived with a career that already spanned vaudeville, silent movies, films of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Disney Studios big-screen animated classics and USO tours to entertain U.S. troops around the world. But the most lasting legacy he left from his 20 or so years in Arizona are the numerous caricatures he drew of local folk and some of the Major League Baseball stars who came to the area for spring training in the 1950s and '60s. The book features many of those affectionately humorous drawings.