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John James Held Jr. (January 10, 1889 – March 2, 1958) was an American cartoonist, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, and author. One of the best-known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, his most popular works were his uniquely styled cartoons which depicted people dancing, driving, playing sports, and engaging in other popular ...
John Held, Jr. was a cartoonist whose work epitomized the “jazz age” of the 1920s in the United States. At the age of 16 he was drawing sports and political cartoons for the Salt Lake Tribune, and at 19 he sold his first cartoon to a national magazine.
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Upon his death at the age of 69, The New York Times observed that John Held, Jr. (American, 1889-1958) had been in his heyday, “one of the country’s best known cartoonists.” The obituary continued, “Such was Mr. Held’s reputation, he recalled recently, that people sent him blank checks to make drawings for them.”
Jan 10, 2023 · John James Held, Jr. was an American cartoonist, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, and author. One of the best-known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, his uniquely styled cartoons depicted people dancing, driving, playing sports, and engaging in other popular activities of the era.
John Held Jr. was an American cartoonist, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, and author. One of the best-known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, his most popular works were his uniquely styled cartoons which depicted people dancing, driving, playing sports, and engaging in other popular activities of the era.
John Held, Jr., the artist behind the witty imagery of this scarf set, was an important illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s. His work appeared in popular magazines like Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and Redbook and his images of the quintessential flapper "Betty Co-Ed" and her cohort "Joe College" became iconic representations of the young-and ...
May 25, 2023 · John Held, Jr. was born in Utah in 1889. He chronicled the spirit of the 1920s, the “Jazz Age,” with his cartoons of the flapper Betty Co-ed, and her friend, Joe College. Held died in New Jersey in 1958. At fourteen, Held was a cartoonist for The Salt Lake Tribune.
