The Tattooed Man Goes Collegiate!
Date1928
Artist
John Held, Jr.
(American painter and illustrator, 1889–1958)
Illustration CitationCover of Life, March 1, 1928
MediumGouache, watercolor, ink, and graphite on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 16 1/16 × 12 5/8 in. (40.8 × 32.1 cm)
sheet: 18 1/16 × 14 in. (45.9 × 35.6 cm)
sheet: 18 1/16 × 14 in. (45.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1986
Object number1986-114
On View
On viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextUtah-native John Held, J. was a premier cartoonist of the 1920's Jazz Age, credited with capturing such characters as the flapper and Joe College. Here in a parody of a body-building contest, a spindly youth displays tattoos with popular slang phrases and references to the costs of college.
