The girl who gave him the cold shoulder / John Held, Jr.

Cover of Life magazine showing sunburned woman pulling down shoulder strap of her beach blouse as man smiles.
Caption label from exhibit "Monstrous Craws...": The jaunty spirit of the Jazz Age came to life in the work of influential illustrator John Held, Jr. (1889-1958). During the 1920s, his colorful portrayals of flippant "flapper" girls and jaunty "Joe College" boys appeared in such magazines as Judge, The New Yorker, College Humor, Harper's Bazaar. His designs, such as this magazine cover depicting a coolly coquettish girl and a gawky, grinning guy, helped delineate a carefree, confident image of American society. Held also wrote and illustrated numerous books, designed costumes and sets for musical reviews, and created comic strips including Oh! Margy (later Merely Margy), Joe Prep, and Rah Rah Rosalie. Examples of his graphic work form part of the Library's Cabinet of American Illustration, a national collection of original drawings by generations of leading artists, illustrators, and cartoonists.
Purchase (Swann Fund); Mrs. John Held, Jr.; (DLC/PP-1985:269).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Exhibit loan 4168-L.
Exhibited: "Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon Caricature," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 25-July 1998.
Exhibited: American beauties: drawings from the golden age of illustration, Swann Gallery, Library of Congress, 2002.
BAR updated record 1989-1994.