Profile of Man Smoking Cigar

Profile of Man Smoking Cigar by Philip William May

Medium

Black chalk, charcoal, and graphite with white chalk, on ivory wove card

Dimensions

35 × 26.8 cm (13 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

47064

About the Artist

Philip William May · 18641903

Phil May (1864–1903) was a British caricaturist and illustrator celebrated for his brilliantly economical line drawings that influenced generations of cartoonists. Born in Wortley, Leeds, into modest circumstances, he received little formal training but demonstrated extraordinary natural talent for comic drawing from childhood. He worked for various provincial papers before moving to Australia in ...

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