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JOHN HELD JR. New York Skyline.
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 1934. 510x356 mm; 20x14 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower left recto.
Held (1889-1958) was a cartoonist, illustrator, artist and author. He was born and trained in Salt Lake City (one of his mentors there was the artist Mahonri Young, see lot 110, a grandson of Brigham Young) before moving to New York. During the 1910s and 1920s, Held's flapper era work graced the coversand pages of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
