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James Montgomery Flagg

James Montgomery Flagg (1877 - 1960) was active/lived in New York.  James Flagg is known for Illustration, figure, genre, portrait paintings.

The following information was submitted in August of 2006 by American Illustrators Gallery:

James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)

During a long and fruitful career, James Montgomery Flagg produced an immense and varied amount of artwork. A popular social gadabout and the life of a party, Flagg was constantly sketching friends, celebrities and politicians and always surrounded by beautiful models and sycophants. He clearly enjoyed his own ability at humor and satire as well as his fame as an illustrator.

By the age of twelve he was selling his drawings and cartoons to St. Nicholas magazine.  At the age of fifteen, he was a staff artist for both Judge and Life magazines, two of the nation¹s most successful periodicals.  Flagg grew up in the period when pen and ink ruled and printing technology was limited.  When halftone printing was accepted as a reproduction process, Flagg created images of beautiful women, which supplanted the por   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7786 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

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