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John Vassos

John Vassos (1898 - 1985) was active/lived in New York / Greece.  John Vassos is known for Book illustrator-abstraction, graphics.

John Vassos was an original.  It's hard to say that about too many artists as one can usually trace a stylistic path back to an earlier influence.  I'm not sure he had one.  The only source I can imagine is the technique of display cards that were ubiquitous during his youth and to which he applied his skills soon after he reached New York.

Born in Greece in 1898, he spent his youth in Constantinople where he was artistically active from an early age.  He was the editorial cartoonist for a liberal newspaper in his early teens and when one of these cartoons featured a less-than-flattering view of the Turkish senate (he was Greek after all), he was forced to flee (supposedly for his life) on a British ship.  He was 16.

World War I had just begun.  Vassos saw action in the North Sea, at Gallipoli and on a mine sweeper.  He ended up in America in 1919 in Boston.  He soon was lettering placards and price tags and goi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11405 characters.]  Artist bio

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