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One of the best-known magazine illustrators of the 1920s

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Café Continental, New York 1950s Overton's One of the best-known magazineThe Caf Continental was situated in the Barbizon Plaza Hotel on Central Park South. The cover features an illustration by John Held Jr. (1889 1958) an American cartoonist, printmaker, illustrator, and author. One of the best known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, Held created cheerful art showing his characters dancing, motoring and engaging in fun filled activities. The drawings depicted the flapper era in a way that both satirized and influenced