Tag Archives: John Held Jr.

high spirits in the twenty somethings

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Dave

A circle of young, exuberant wits, Robert Sherwood among the, regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… When Harding entered the postwar ( WWI) White House and Prohibition dried up the … Continue reading →

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jazz age: poignancy of the brief

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dave

” This timeless moment… warm, mindless, immediate” … John Held Jr.’s moment came with the season of Coolidge prosperity, a season so warmly sunlit that few noticed the slanting rays were autumnal. The conflicts of the postwar adjustment period were … Continue reading →

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flapping those jazz babies

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Dave

( see link at end) If ever an artist’s work so consummately defined a particular era, it was that of the Roaring Twenties illustrator John Held, Jr., whose creations both set the standard for-and gently ribbed-a generation. More than any … Continue reading →

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sheiks and shebas dance no more

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Dave

1926…Over that pied and milling campus the sunshine is almost tangible. The Sheiks wear Fair Isle sweaters of gaudy intricacy, checked plus fours with tassled socks, or gray flannels so bell-bottomed that they completely vover the saddle-strapped shoes. Most of … Continue reading →

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