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A 1930's Motoring / automobile / Automobile Association pen and ink cartoon drawing by Joseph (Joe) Lee (English, 1919-1975) for The London Evening News.

Click to see full size: A 1930s Motoring / automobile / Automobile Association pen and ink cartoon drawing by Joseph (Joe) Lee (English, 1919-1975) for The London Evening News.- A 1930s Motoring / automobile / Automobile Association pen and ink cartoon drawing by Joseph (Joe) Lee (English, 1919-1975) for The London Evening News.<br />
     
Click for larger image: A 1930’s Motoring / automobile / Automobile Association pen and ink cartoon drawing by Joseph (Joe) Lee (English, 1919-1975) for The London Evening News. - A 1930’s Motoring / automobile / Automobile Association pen and ink cartoon drawing by Joseph (Joe) Lee (English, 1919-1975) for The London Evening News.<br />
 
     
 

A 1930's Motoring / automobile / Automobile Association pen and ink cartoon drawing by Joseph (Joe) Lee (English, 1919-1975) for The London Evening News.

A Motoring / automobile / Automobile Association pen and ink cartoon drawing on "Reeves Commercial Art Board" by Joseph (Joe) Lee (English, 1919-1975) for The London Evening News. Titled "London Laughs : Automobile Association. "My car is temporarily out of action, but of course, I'm still entitled to salutes" Signed bottom left "LEE" and dated "27-8-35". English, 1935.


Joseph (Joe) Lee was a Yorkshire-born cartoonist. He learnt his skill via Percy Bradshaw’s Press Art School correspondence course.

When he was unable to finance his training as an architect at the Royal College of Art, he turned to illustration instead. After producing his first cartoon for The Bystander in 1920 he developed quickly as a freelance artist and by 1921 was described by the Strand Magazine as ‘the youngest of the men of his craft who have now an established reputation’.

During the mid-1930s, Lee contributed to a variety of periodicals, and created the hugely popular ‘London Laughs’ series for the Evening News (1934-66) which has been credited as the first run of non-political topical cartoons in the UK. After almost 9000 cartoons – the longest running daily cartoonist in history he retired to Norwich in July 1966 but continued to produce political cartoons three days a week for the local Eastern Daily Press and work for comics.

In 1963 he was presented with an award for Special Services to Cartooning by the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain.

Today his work can e seen in the Victoria & Albert Museum.


 
 

Medium Group: Paintings

Year: 1935

 
 

Breed: Other

Artist: Lee, Joseph

 
 

 

 

 
 

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Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 15 inches

 
       
   
       
 




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