N.Z. CARTOONS GO OVERSEAS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 12

N.Z. CARTOONS GO OVERSEAS

land’s best-known black and white artists will be included in an exhibition of Empire’ war cartoons which will shortly tour through Canada and the United States. The artists are Russell Clark, Gordon Minhinnick, Ken Alexander, A. S. Paterson, J..C Hill, Garmonsway, J. R. N. Maxwell, «I. McAnally (Fox), P. Moore’ Jones, and Oriwa Haddon, the Maori artist. The majority of these are represented by several samples of their best work. The exhibition is being collected on behalf of the National Gallery of Canada bes by 10 of New Zea-

by Alan Reeve, former New Zealand caricaturist, and he explains in a letter to the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. Walter Nash, who supervised the collecting of the New Zealand section, that its purpose is to demonstrate still further to America the democratic solidarity of the Empire’s war effort. Great Britain, India, and the other Dominions will all be represented. Mr. Nash, incidentally, is a _ close friend of David Low, a collection of whose post-war cartoons has _ recently toured the United States with tremendous success. It is intended to exhibit the cartoons in galleries throughout America, newspapers and magazines being invited to

reproduce samples. In this event, full credit will be given both to the artist and to the publication in which the cartoon originally appeared. Each artist’s work is supported by a brief biography and a page from the publication featuring his work. Russell Clark’s contribution includes some of his outstanding black and white illustrations drawn for The Listener since the outbreak of war. Most of them appeared on the covers of special issues. All cartoons will be offered for sale, and the artists have been asked to nominate a price for their drawings. Garmonsway has offered the proceeds from the sale of any one of his cartoons for patriotic purposes.