Held, John, Jr.

Held, John, Jr. (1889–1958) cartoonist, illustrator, sculptor; born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He sold his first cartoon to Life magazine while still an adolescent. He worked for the Salt Lake City Tribune before moving (1912) to New York City to contribute cartoons to Vanity Fair. In 1918 his satirical cartoons depicting vacuous Jazz-age flappers made their first regular appearance in the New Yorker; his work came to epitomize the Roaring Twenties. In later life, he turned to sculpting and was an artist-in-residence at Harvard University and the University of Georgia.