Tag: James Montgomery Flagg

Thurber Thursday: James Montgomery Flagg’s Thurber; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Felipe Galindo; A Steinberg Exhibit; Barbara Smaller At The Chief-Leader; More Spills…Donnelly, Dator

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James Montgomery Flagg’s Thurber Came across this portrait of Thurber by one of the biggest names in American illustration of yore, James Montgomery Flagg. Is it just my imagination, or did Flagg’s style get in the way of capturing his subject.   James Thurber’s A-Z Spill entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker

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Thurber Thursday: Faces & Facts; Interview Of Interest: Navied Mahdavian; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

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Faces & Facts Here’s a great little book I picked up quite a ways back during my research for the Peter Arno biography. Faces & Facts By And About 26 Contemporary Artists was privately printed in 1937 (just 526 copies) with an introduction by James Montgomery Flagg and “biographies” by Willis Birchman. Each biography is given a page, and opposite

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