About John Cecil Clay
Lived 1875 – 1930 (aged 54–55). John Cecil Clay was an American illustrator, caricaturist and artist.
John Cecil Clay, 1875–1930, was an American illustrator known for genre and caricature paintings.
Clay was born in Ronceverte, West Virginia, to a long-time Southern family. He was a student of Henry Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League of New York and had a graphic style that was suited to illustration. A recurring subject was pretty young women. During his life he worked for Life and Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
He was a member of Society of Illustrators and was represented at the St. Louis Exposition-World's Fair 1904. Apart from the above-mentioned magazines he also worked as an illustrator for The Century Magazine, Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping.
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American artist (1875-1930)
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John Cecil Clay was born in 1875.
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John Cecil Clay died in 1930.
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John Cecil Clay was an illustrator, caricaturist and artist.
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