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JOHN HELD JR. THE ENCHANTED ISLE / MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 1934.

41 7/8x28 3/8 inches. Plampin Litho, NYC.
Condition A-: minor tears and creases in margins. Paper.
A nighttime picnic on the beach, where fashionable couples in red, white, teal, and black swimsuits and evening wear sprawl around the fire and play in the dark green waves. Drawn in the distinctive illustrative style of John Held Jr., one of the top cartoonists in the 1920s and 1930s. Held was a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook and other popular magazines. His flapper girls were a tremendous sensation and came to be the visual epitomization of the roaring 20s.

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August 7, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
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