Lot 182: Roosevelt as Nero by FRANK ARTHUR NANKIVELL

Political. G.O.P. Elephant begging Theodore Roosevelt to run for president. Signed. dated 1905. 21" X 28"Frank Arthur Nankivell (1869â€"1959) was an Australian artist and political cartoonist.Nankivell was He was a book illustrator in New York circles of the 1910s and 1920s on such publications as Puck, which was America's first successful humor magazine.Nankivell studied art at Wesley College, Melbourne. He later travelled to Japan and earned a living as a cartoonist in Tokyo where he made the acquaintance of Rakuten Kitazawa, who later became father of the Japanese comic art now known as manga. Several examples of his work are held in the collections of The Smithsonian in Washington DC. He was a large influence on the Japanese manga artist Rakuten Kitazawa.

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