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John Held Jr., American, 1889-1958. Connecticut, New Jersey, Florida. Jazz-Age genre, flapper figures, illustration. “Untitled (Ford T Model Car)” is signed lower right in ink: John Held Jr. Numbered lower right in graphite. John Held Jr. was the premier illustrator and cartoonist of the jazz age. When he was just fifteen, Held sold a work of his art to Life magazine. He continued creating illustrations for magazines including Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Held developed his characteristic style by 1920, which pictured stiff, stylized figures prior to their symbolic definition of the decade. His magazine covers offered humor for dismayed traditionalists, and stylish models for the younger flappers with shorter skirts and pencil-like necks. Held was incredibly successful, earning over one million dollars a year at one point and owning a private zoo and golf course. This drawing shows three separate pairs of figures. A man plays the saxophone while a woman sings and dances with knees facing inwards. One couple embraces in the Ford T model car, while the third leans on the back of the car, which contains text. Keywords: figure, figural, car, automotive