Low, Sir David

Low, Sir David

▪ British caricaturist
born April 7, 1891, Dunedin, N.Z.
died September 19, 1963, London, England

      New Zealand-born British journalist, one of the great modern political cartoonists and caricaturists.

      A self-taught artist, Low was already contributing cartoons to a local weekly paper at the age of 11. At 17 he set out as a full-time free-lance artist, combining this work from 1911 with a post on the Bulletin of Sydney, Australia. Having acquired a certain notoriety with some highly successful and impudent cartoons of Australia's Labor prime minister “Billy” Hughes (The Billy Book, 1918), Low was invited to England by the Daily News in 1919. He found himself on the Star, however, remaining there until 1927, when he joined the Evening Standard at the invitation of Lord Beaverbrook. Thriving in opposition to this paper's right-wing political views, Low produced his best work. He reached his peak with the political cartoons of the years before and during World War II, which earned him world fame and the special hatred of Adolf Hitler. His Colonel Blimp also was born in the Evening Standard. The dramatic simplicity of his conception and the almost Oriental facility of his brushwork combined with telling effect, especially when dealing with the black-and-white issues of fascism and oppression. Much work on these themes is contained in The Years of Wrath (1949).

      Thirty collections of Low's works were published between 1908 and 1960. His Autobiography appeared in 1956. He left the Evening Standard for the Daily Herald in 1950, but the situation was unsatisfactory and in 1953 he joined The Guardian, with which he had long been associated. He was knighted in 1962.

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