illustrator and cartoonist, was born in Sydney. He attended Dattilo Rubbo 's evening art classes at the Royal Art Society of NSW for five years and also received help and criticism from Norman Lindsay . He contributed to the Bulletin where, Douglas Stewart wrote, 'his flair with the pen seemed almost as if it would rival Norman Lindsay’s [like Percy Leason ]. He too went to America and became that country’s highest-paid magazine illustrator’ (Stewart, 21). Bulletin cartoon published 6 May 1915, 40, signed 'Jack. F.’, The Strike 'CHARON: “Hey! You go slower, or I chuck it. D’ye think I can ferry women and children across as well as armies?” (re WWI).
Flanagan left Australia in 1916 and never returned to live, though he revisited Sydney in 1927 to hold a successful exhibition of his work. He became famous in the US for his scraper-board illustrations in Cosmopolitan , Colliers , etc.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
