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	Norman Rockwell Museum
		Held truly was a born artist, drawing animals at age three, selling his first cartoon at age nine, and working as a professional newspaper cartoonist in his mid teens.
		Held's career looked likely to be sidetracked by a sojourn in the military; yet his duties for the United States Naval Intelligence agency in Central America were to produce sketches and maps of the coastline and all local military installations.
		Held would again refocus his artistic output, this time concentrating on sculpture; he was soon sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation as "artist-in-residence" at both Harvard University and the University of Georgia in 1940.
	www.nrm.org /exhibits/held/bio.html (699 words)

	¤ John Held Jr. ¤
		When he came of age as an artist he took the name of John Held Jr., a cartoonist in the 1920's who originated the look of the "flapper girl" and considered as one of America's great illustrators.
		For him it was dada and a tribute to the original John Held Jr., even though he had passed away and his wife didn't appreciate it.
		Plunkett was also directly involved in the early years of Mail-Art as he gave the name 'The New York Correspondance School of Art' in 1962 to the artistic correspondence activities of Johnson.
	www.sztuka-fabryka.be /encyclopaedia/items/held_jr.htm (2779 words)

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		Helds' writings on Mail Art, rubber stamp art, performance and other marginal and avant-garde art forms have appeared in such diverse magazines as Art and Artists, Rubberstampmadness, Factsheet Five, Artpapers, and Public Library Quarterly, as well as other Mail Art, alternative and underground magazines throughout the world.
		In December 1992, Held delivered a talk on mail art at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, and spoke to the staff of the National Art Library on documenting the contemporary avant-garde.
		Held was invited by the city of Itami, Japan, to participated in a series of performances in connection with Global Forum, an international ecology conference, in April and May 1993.
	www.chelagallery.org /blasterctbs/held.html (599 words)

	John Held Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His post-1930 works are not as well-known, but he was versatile enough to earn a living through the Great Depression and beyond.
		By 1952, the nostalgia market was dominated by 1920s designs, and Held's earlier works enjoyed a revival.
		In addition to his archetypical flapper illustrations, during the same time Held also did cartoons in a 19th century woodcut style, in a bit of satirical nostalgia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Held_Jr. (125 words)

	Asbury Park Press - January 1, 2000 - John Held Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Held gladly' filled in whopping sums, which he spent to keep himself entertained and to keep his succession of wives in style.
		Held was so unserious about himself that he ran a joke campaign for Congress in 1926 from his new home in Connecticut.
		Held, who had once lived the life of an urban sophisticate, reveled in farm life, right down to milking the cows and spreading manure.
	www.infoage.org /app-01-01-2001.html (848 words)

	Register of the John Held Band Collection at the Utah State Historical Society
		Held was largely a self-taught musician, but he had learned enough by 1885 to form his own band, and he kept it running successfully through several musical fashions for the next fifty years.
		This suggests that Held was able to choose his bands men from among a surplus of applicants, and one presumes therefore that it boasted a fairly polished sound.
		Held exerted himself to keep up with changing musical fashions, but it is clear that he was deeply committed to the concert band and its music.
	history.utah.gov /FindAids/B00049 (2396 words)

	SMA \| John Held Jr.
		For John Held, Jr., the crash of 1929 signaled not only "the demise of the flapper," but the destruction of his personal fortune.
		Held went to Hollywood in the mid-thirties, and hung out a shingle that read: "Open for screen-writing after 4 years of experience in Hollywood." In that same year, he also spent time in Utah giving talks on personal aesthetics at the Art Barn and the Hotel Newhouse.
		While Held was in the state, a friend and fellow artist, Roscoe Grover, asked the New Yorker what his favorite color was.
	www.shs.nebo.edu /Museum/held.html (453 words)

	Artist John Held, Jr. Created Cultural Icons, 1920s
		John Jr.'s maternal grandfather, James Evans, an English convert to Mormonism and a handcart pioneer, helped design sets for the theater, and his daughter Annie frequently acted in local productions.
		John Held, Jr., was born to John and Annie Evans Held on January 10, 1889.
		Held eventually settled on a farm in Belmar, New Jersey, with a new family and his beloved animals.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/from_war_to_war/artistjohnheldjr.html (732 words)

	Interviews with Fluxus Artists by John Held Jr
		Cage was in the area to attend an event in his honor at the University of Texas at Dallas.
		Kaprow was attending, "Proceedings," a symposium in his honor held at the University of Texas at Arligngton.
		John Held, Jr: Tonight we have a very special guest, Mr.
	www.fluxusheidelberg.org /jh_flux_int_v1.html (10403 words)

	Citizens appoints John J. Held Jr. as Director of Mid-Atlantic Mortgage Banking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Held has 25 years of sales and operations leadership experience in the residential mortgage lending field.
		"John has extensive knowledge of the Pennsylvania market and will be an asset to Citizens as we develop our business in the Mid-Atlantic region," said Stephen D. Steinour, Chairman and CEO of Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania.
		Held is a former member of the Home Builders Association of Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware counties; the Board of Realtors of Delaware, Eastern Montgomery, Central Montgomery, Chester, Bucks and Philadelphia counties; and the Board of Governors of the Wissahickon Skating Club.
	www.citizensbank.com /aboutus/news/02262002held.asp (279 words)

	KQED \| Public TV: Spark: John Held Jr.
		It is not surprising, then, that Held and others believe that the Internet has extended the possibilities and scope of mail art.
		At the heart of Held's interest in mail art is the way the art form merges fine art with the experiences of everyday life.
		Mars, who is also involved in mail art, produces materials relating to her dinners each week, including invitations, artist's postage stamps, photographs, a guest book and other kinds of documentation of the event.
	www.kqed.org /spark/artists-orgs/johnheldjr.jsp (663 words)

	Article 5 - John Hall, Jr.
		By the 1870s, Ontario tastes had moved beyond the classical traditions of the early nineteenth century, with their emphasis on symmetry and balance, to a more romantic and picturesque notion of what was beautiful.
		This the young John Hall was able to do, and do superbly, with a set of four houses on one block of Woolwich Street near Guelph's commercial core (between "the foot of Suffolk" and Norwich).
		According to the Mercury, John Hall's funeral on February 24, 1886, "was the largest held in Guelph for a long time, the streets along the route taken were lined with spectators."[20] However, he seems to have been promptly forgotten after that, with most accounts of Guelph's history not even mentioning him.
	www.uoguelph.ca /history/urban/article5.html (3036 words)

	USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education): John Held, Jr. and the Jazz Age - Newsview - Brief Article
		Some of Held's earliest pictures depicted dancers in the spotlight, a notable precursor to the flapper images that would immortalize his art.
		Held is also known for his quirky takes on cartography.
		While his proficiencies spanned all mediums, Held's special talent was his knowing brand of humor, which so significantly charmed his audiences.
	findarticles.com /cf_dls/m1272/2687_131/90870875/p1/article.jhtml (508 words)

	Asbury Park Press - January 1, 2000 - John Held Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But Held sensed the temper of his post-World War I times, when societal mores were loosening and people were looking for a good time.
		The shock was so great that Held had a nervous breakdown and spent time in a sanitarium.
		Held began writing novels and children's books as he rounded out his talents.
	www.campevans.com /app-01-01-2001.html (848 words)

	John Fox, Jr. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		American philanthropist, the only son of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and heir to the Rockefeller fortune, who built Rockefeller Center in New York City and was instrumental in the decision to locate the United Nations in that city.
		The first was Abigail Smith Adams; her husband, John Adams, was elected in 1796 and her son, John Quincy Adams, in 1824.
		John Herschel Glenn, Jr., made history in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9323761 (735 words)

	Flapper Culture & Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Her tenure on stage (and later in the movies) brought her into contact with the wealthy, the artistic and the socially glamourous figures of the 1920's.
		She was painted by Vargas, photographed by Edward Steichen, and served as the inspiration for John H. Striebel's long running flapper-inspired cartoon, "Dixie Dugan." During the 1920's, Brooks was also a model, and appeared occassionally in fashion ads.
		Held's work - which often depicted flappers and their collegiate male admirers - frequently appeared in such publications as Life, Vanity Fair, and The Smart Set.
	www.public.asu.edu /~dsalce/emc598/Jennifer_Ramirez/flapper.html (1413 words)

	Comic creator: John Held Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1910, he was employed by Collier's agency and moved to New York, where he drew his first cartoons under the pseudonym Myrtle Held.
		During the 1920s, he became renowned for the flat-chested, angular "flapper" girls he drew for the New Yorker.
		Held went back to illustrating, and died in 1958.
	www.lambiek.com /held_j.htm (130 words)

	John Held Jr. Biography
		This is fortunate for us, as much of his published and most famous work is done in an energetic but very fine line that the web has trouble reproducing in moderately-sized files.
		Much as I respect the talent, these are not the Held images that attract me and though he worked in wood and linoleum prints often, he was capable of much more.
		Purportedly sent to study Mayan art forms, Held's real job was to sketch the coastline and scout for sites for military operations.
	www.bpib.com /illustrat/johnheld.html (1095 words)

	Books About John Held, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Illustrations and the life of John Held, Jr.: Few artists define an age as thoroughly as John Held Jr.
		This illustrated biographical study examines not only the life and work of John Held, Jr.
		"At long last, here is a probing account of John Held, Jr., who was partly responsible for the way we looked and behaved during the turbulent 1920's and '30's.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG00/rekas/attic/held.htm (175 words)

	Ruud Janssen in The USA - October/November 1996
		Actually I was the last inhabitant of this place since John Held Jr.
		I visited the Stamp Art Gallery often, where it is always a surprise who you meet (like Steven Leiber passing by, Marcy Freedman with her concept-version of a CD-ROM) or talk to (phonecalls with Bill Willson from New York, Patricia Tavenner from Oakland, Tim Mancusi from Rohnert Park).
		John Held Jr, Picasso Gaglione, Diana O. Mars, Darling Darlene, Miriam Wolf, R. Seth Friedman, Mike Dyar, Patricia Tavenner, Carol Carson, Steven Leiber, Steve Hitchcock.
	www.iuoma.org /reis_usa.html (1615 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Calla Lilies by John Held
		Held made numerous watercolor studies of flowers, animals and landscapes.
		As one of his contemporaries put it, "[F. Scott] Fitzgerald wrote it, and Held drew it." His publication credits reads as a list of the leading magazines of the time, in addition to the ones already mentioned he drew for The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook and Century Magazine.
		According to the illustrator Al Hirschfeld, in 1924 Held's income was well over $1 million a year.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/nathist/botanical/heldcalla.html (397 words)

	John Held Jr. and the Jazz Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Held's highly stylized illustrations are the centerpiece of "John Held, Jr.
		Held was one of the preeminent artists of his day.
		Held is also known for his quirky takes on cartography: His parodies of maps, which frequently appeared in such publications as "The New Yorker," were full of pithy commentaries and extraneous details and were completely out of scale.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/3aa/3aa364.htm (921 words)

	TAM Interview - John Held Jr. (Part 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John helped me a lot during this trip and as friends we undertook lots of things together.
		Sometimes they even don't take part in the open mail art projects again, so newcomers don't even know about their existence and can't easily grasp what the history is of the network.
		Did I? (At the MAIL ART ONLINE assembly I found John Held's message that he sent me the last reply but it hadn't reached me. So I sent him the last question and text again so he could react again.
	jas.faximum.com /library/tam/tam_02b.htm (5250 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		illustrations are the centerpiece of John Held, Jr.
		A tattoo honoring General John W. Vessey, Jr.: as performed by the 77th Army Band during the USFAA General Membership Meeting held 22 October 2003 at Fort Sill, OK.
		Little Brown Jug John W. Vessey, Jr., was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1922.
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?q=John+Held+jr.&refid=kunstnet (520 words)

	John Held Jr. Online
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	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/held_jr_john.html (147 words)

	The New Haven RR Image Page -- John Held Jr. and the New Haven RR
		Although Held is best known for the covers he did for the New Yorker magazine during the 1920s and 1930s, he also did a lot of advertising work for the New Haven Railroad during the same period.
		John Held Jr.'s famous cartoon characters dress up this Summer Resorts guide that was distributed by the New Haven Railroad during 1930.
		A family of John Held's famous cartoon figures grace the cover of this New Haven Railroad excursion train folder from the summer of 1932.
	www.nhrhta.org /htdocs/images0801.htm (588 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: John Held Jr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Illustrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age, Held (1889-1958) popularized the image of the Roaring Twenties flapper.
		But, even though his cartoons, ads and posters brought him wealth and fame, he yearned to be a serious artist and a writer.
		Held's stinging caricatures of the superficially liberated woman ring true today.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0815602154 (220 words)

	John Held jr. artist and art...the-artists.org
		Johnson was the nerve center of this pre-digital netscape that spread around the nation and, eventually, the world, which continues to flourish today.
		Information on the life, background and work of John Held jr.
		Personal data and representives, education, signature, exhibition history, auction results and upcoming auctions of John Held jr..
	the-artists.org /ArtistView.cfm?id=B4F486C4-9FC0-7DB4-88994E97EE5D96C2 (220 words)

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		A cartoonist, illustrator and comic-strip artist much associated with the 'Roaring Twenties Jazz Age', John Held Jr.
		John Held Jr was born in 1889 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
		He came by his talent and interest in illustration through his father, who was a copperplate engraver who had illu (showing 500 of 6128 characters).
	askart.com /artist/H/john_jr_held.asp?ID=24669 (283 words)

	BAY AREA DADA - John Held Jr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dada began in the burlesque theater of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, spreading to Paris, Berlin, Eastern Europe and New York, where younger artists, such as Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia, sought to counterpoint a culture producing the wholesale carnage of WWI.
		First active in 1963, Fluxus artists, under the influence of John Cage and the direction of Lithuanian art impresario George Maciunas, were creating happenings and events rending the fabric of the prevailing Abstract Expressionist movement.
		Mancusi was responsible for the cover, which featured a mix of newspaper clippings (including a report of a Nixon protest in Berkeley, and statistics of youthful drug use), a collage by Ray Johnson, and detourned turn-of-the century cartoons.
	www.vorticeargentina.com.ar /escritos/bay_area_dada.html (2735 words)

	John Conyers, Jr. -- ConyersBlog
		Presidents should be held accountable for their actions.
		Ok, hold on to that belief that John Kerry is secretly working behind the scenes to get to the bottom of this DSM.
		Finally, we need to keep the Bush administration playing defense, they are not very good at it, and their defensive mode is to attack, divert, obsfuscate and attack some more.
	www.conyersblog.us /archives/00000140.htm (10917 words)

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