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self portrait -lrb- 1920 -rrb- 18 january 1955 thaxted , essex , england belfast , ireland 250px irish cartooning , illustration 5 september 1869 george morrow -lrb- self-portrait , 1920 -rrb- . png george morrow -lrb- illustrator -rrb-
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george morrow -lrb- illustrator -rrb-

george morrow -lrb- 5 september 1869 , in belfast -- 18 january 1955 , in thaxted , essex -rrb- was a cartoonist and book illustrator .
he was the son of a painter and decorator from clifton street in west belfast .
of his seven brothers , four , albert -lrb- 1863 -- 1927 -rrb- , jack -lrb- 1872 -- 1926 -rrb- , edwin -lrb- 1877 -- 1952 -rrb- and norman -lrb- 1879 -- 1917 -rrb- , were also illustrators and cartoonists .
educated at the model school and the government school of art , he was apprenticed as a signwriter .
he contributed to an exhibition by the belfast ramblers ' sketching club in 1888 , and later studied in paris .
in the mid to late 1890s he lived in chelsea , london , where he made the acquaintance of mark twain .
in 1896 he contributed illustrations to `` pick-me-up '' and mary russell mitford 's `` county stories '' .
he contributed to `` ulad '' , a magazine associated with the ulster literary theatre , in 1905 .
in 1906 he sat on the committee of the first oireachtas art exhibition with jack butler yeats and sarah purser , contributed cartoons to `` the shanachie '' and bulmer hobson 's separatist magazine `` the republic '' , and began his long association with `` punch '' .
over the years he contributed 2,704 cartoons , including 22 full-page political cartoons .
he joined the staff of the magazine in 1924 , and was art editor from 1932 to 1937 .
for many years , morrow produced `` royal academy depressions '' , a series of comic parodies of royal academy pictures .
other publications he contributed to included the `` bystander '' , `` the pall mall magazine '' , `` sphere '' , `` strand magazine '' , `` tatler '' and `` windsor magazine '' .
several collections of his cartoons were published .
`` an alphabet of the war '' -lrb- 1915 -rrb- reprinted cartoons from `` punch almanack '' .
`` george morrow : his book '' -lrb- 1920 -rrb- , `` more morrow '' -lrb- 1921 -rrb- and `` some more '' -lrb- 1928 -rrb- followed .
he also illustrated more than 70 books by other authors for adults and children , and created the satirical pictorial novel `` what a life ! ''
with e. v. lucas .
he lived most of his adult life in england , although he spent many summers painting watercolours in ireland , particularly in county donegal .
married with no children , he died at his home in thaxted , essex , about a month after his last cartoon appeared in `` punch '' .
he also had his illustrations published inside a children 's history book `` the foundations of history '' - a picture book of the history of our land .
published by thomas nelson and sons
