Ronald William Fordham Searle - Artist Info

About Ronald William Fordham Searle

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    Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist:

    Ronald Searle, Slyly Caustic Cartoonist, Dies at 91
    By STEVEN HELLER
    Published: January 3, 2012

    Ronald Searle, the British cartoonist and caricaturist whose outlandishly witty illustrations for books, magazine covers, newspaper editorial pages and advertisements helped define postwar graphic humor, died on Friday in Draguignan, in southeastern France, where he lived. He was 91.

    His family said in a statement that he had died in his sleep after a short illness.

    Lampooning the foibles of the English class system as well as clerics, politicians and even other artists, Mr. Searle was often described as a latter-day version of the 18th-century British graph...

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