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Birth
1889 (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Death
1958 (Belmar, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
Connecticut/Florida
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Jazz-Age genre, flapper figures-illustration
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A cartoonist, illustrator and comic-strip artist much associated with the 'Roaring Twenties Jazz Age', John Held Jr. had a perspective and sense of humor that both reflected and shaped a generation. His stereotypical flapper women were depicted as simple minded, flat chested and ever accompanied by a raccoon-coated beaux.
John Held Jr was born in 1889 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He came by his talent and interest in illustration through his father, who was a copperplate engraver (showing 500 of 6518 characters). |
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