Harry Richards Jones sold work to Humorama as this 1962 drawing attests, but serious biographical information on the artist is lacking. One thing I did learn is that his Grandson David Rickman is a painter who works out of the same area of the country in Mississippi. The press release HERE for his exhibition at the Corinth Artist Guild Gallery mentions that young David became interested in art from studying his grandfather's drawings and sketches. He also uses his grandfather's old drawing table!
David has this to say about Harry's work. "“My grandfather was an artist here in Corinth in the ‘50s. He would draw cartoons and send them to an art agency in New York. They would publish them in different magazines all over the country.” He still fondly recalls his late grandfather Harry Richards Jones’ cartoons, which reflected a simpler flavor of humor in the 1950s. Jones graduated from the Washington School of Art and was represented by the Ben Roth Art Agency in New York. (From the Daily Corinthian HERE.)
Hopefully Mr. Rickman will find this post and reply with some of those sketches. Harry Jones had a crisp, clean style...note the detail in the waves of hair. Another of his Humorama drawings appears HERE.
Original Gag cartoon by Harry Jones, 1962. Collection Victor Minx
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