THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
JO HN J EN SE N John Jensen (born 1930) In a career of almost sixty years, John Jensen has contributed to innumerable magazines and newspapers, and has illustrated around 70 books. An expert in the history of his own field, Jensen was a founder, trustee and sometime Chairman of the Cartoon Art Trust, and also Chairman of the British Cartoonists’ Association. In 2002, he received the first ever ‘Grinny’, a Lifetime Achievement Award, at the 1st Nottingham Cartoon Festival.
342 THE CHASE signed inscribed with title below mount signed on reverse pen ink and watercolour 5 x 10 inches Illustrated: Lilliput, June 1954, ‘Women at Work’
Lilliput published cartoons and illustrations by John Jensen during the 1950s. For a biography of John Jensen, please refer to The Illustrators, 2009, page 152 His work is represented in the collections of numerous public collections, including the British Museum and the V&A; and the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent (Canterbury).
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341 TRIUMPHANT FEMALE signed and inscribed with title signed and dated 1954 on reverse pen ink and watercolour 9 x 4 1⁄2 inches Illustrated: Lilliput, June 1954, ‘Women at Work’
340 PRIVATE JOKE signed signed, inscribed with title and dated 1953 on reverse ink and bodycolour 7 1⁄2 x 5 inches Illustrated: Lilliput, 1953, ‘States of Mind’
343 PLAYBOYS signed signed and inscribed with title on reverse pen ink and watercolour 7 1⁄4 x 5 inches Illustrated: Lilliput, June 1954, ‘Women at Work’