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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Larrikin

Larrikin

Maegraith, David
Maegraith, Kerwin

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ISBN10: 1533331782
ISBN13: 9781533331786
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Sep 18 2017
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.28 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Meet the man who knew and drew Picasso in Paris, Einstein and Churchill in London, and even lived with Errol Flynn in Sydney. Kerwin Maegraith, caricaturist, journalist and true Aussie larrikin, encountered the most famous people of his time from the 1920's to the Sixties.

Kerwin's brushes with fame included Lawrence of Arabia, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, John Logie Baird (inventor of TV), J. M. Barrie (author, Peter Pan) and Sir Thomas Beecham.G. K. Chesterton, Noël Coward, King George V, Queen Elizabeth II, Guglielmo Marconi, Field Marshal 'Monty' Montgomery and Anna Pavlova.Along with Aussie legends Don Bradman, Peter Dawson, Robert Helpmann, Keith Murdoch, and Dame Nellie Melba.

Kerwin Maegraith - cartoonist, caricaturist, songwriter and radio broadcaster, was born in Adelaide. Kerwin, who was left-handed, did drawings, cartoons and (kind, flattering) caricatures that were widely published from the 1920s to the 1960s.

e was especially interested in cricket and in 1934, while in England, drew sporting caricatures of the Australian XI touring cricket team for London newspapers and magazines. For this, Florence Taylor claimed, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (he was also proud that 'Three British Kings' - Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor), George V and George VI - had 'stood for Kerwin Maegraith to draw them'.

His page of caricatures 'Some Sydney Artists', published in the Sydney Mail on 11 August 1937 (p.32), included Joan Morrison and 25 men connected with that year's Artists' Ball identified as: A. Aria, Will Ashton (Director of the NAG NSW), Jim Bancks, Maurice Bramley, Stan Cross (President of the Ball Committee), George Finey, John Frith, Tom Glover, Raynor Hoff ('brilliant sculptor'), Arthur Horner, Lahm, Norman Lindsay, Peter Lindsay, George Little, Brodie Mack ('cartoons sporting celebrities'), Will Mahoney, Arthur Mailey (cricketer and cricket cartoonist), Emile Mercier, Syd Miller, Syd Nicholls, Virgil Reilly, Dan Russell, Jim Russell (Secretary of the Ball Committee), Ted Scorfield ('the man who so happily satirises life's foibles') and Frank Whitmore.

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