Painter Thomas Andrew landed a commission from the Alabama Republican Party to create four of his elephant paintings for live auction at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, which will ...

For connoisseurs of elephant art, the elephant’s self-portraits are akin to a circus trick, because the ability to represent mimetically is a set of learned conventions – nothing more, and ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

The free public art exhibition featuring the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey in this city of politics is the latest in a wave of summer urban art shows and tourist attractions that ...

By the end of the 19th century both the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey were firmly associated with the parties thanks to their use in cartoons in large circulation newspapers.

A new political-themed DC bar has lit up the internet after replacing an iconic gay bar that closed last month.

The Republican elephant (“the sluggish animal”) is lying on and blocking the road to an election victory. By 1880, other cartoonists had picked up the symbols and spread them across the country.

Political Pattie’s in Washington, D.C., removed the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey from its logo just after opening as critics bashed the new bar for showing the GOP mascot. Owners of ...

He it was who created the Elephant as symbolic of the Republican Party, and the longeared Donkey that came finally to be accepted as the patron saint of Democracy.

What's red, white and blue with an elephant on the run in the Badger State? The logo for next year's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The Republican National Committee unveiled the ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.