Clifford Sterrett was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip Polly and Her Pals. Born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where his father was a druggist, Cliff Sterrett was of... Read full biography
Clifford Sterrett was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip Polly and Her Pals. Born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where his father was a druggist, Cliff Sterrett was of Scandinavian ancestry. His mother died when he was two; Cliff and his younger brother Paul were then... Read full biography
Clifford Sterrett was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip Polly and Her Pals. Born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where his father was a druggist, Cliff Sterrett was of Scandinavian ancestry. His mother died when he was two; Cliff and his younger brother Paul were then raised by a maiden aunt, Sallie Johnson, after their father moved to Seattle. With a letter of introduction from a local Episcopal clergyman, the 18-year-old Sterrett moved to New York, where he... Read full biography
Clifford Sterrett was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip Polly and Her Pals. Born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where his father was a druggist, Cliff Sterrett was of Scandinavian ancestry. His mother died when he was two; Cliff and his younger brother Paul were then raised by a maiden aunt, Sallie Johnson, after their father moved to Seattle. With a letter of introduction from a local Episcopal clergyman, the 18-year-old Sterrett moved to New York, where he enrolled in the Chase Art School for two years of study. He signed on at the New York Herald in 1904 as a staff art assistant and submitted cartoons to the New York Telegram, embarking on his first comic strips: Ventriloquial Vag, Merry Ha-Ha, When a... Read full biography
Clifford Sterrett was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip Polly and Her Pals. Born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where his father was a druggist, Cliff Sterrett was of Scandinavian ancestry. His mother died when he was two; Cliff and his younger brother Paul were then raised by a maiden aunt, Sallie Johnson, after their father moved to Seattle. With a letter of introduction from a local Episcopal clergyman, the 18-year-old Sterrett moved to New York, where he enrolled in the Chase Art School for two years of study. He signed on at the New York Herald in 1904 as a staff art assistant and submitted cartoons to the New York Telegram, embarking on his first comic strips: Ventriloquial Vag, Merry Ha-Ha, When a Man’s Married, Before and After and For This We Have Daughters. Leaving the Telegram, he drew illustrations for... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (11)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia
1996
Horn, Maurice (editor)
414 pages (color)
The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics
1988
Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams
334 pages (color)
A Century of Color, 1886-1986: Ogunquit, Maine's Art Colony (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Tragard, Louise; Patricia Hart and W.L. Copithorne
140 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Classic Comics & Their Creators Life Stories of American Cartoonists
1973
Sheridan, Martin
304 pages
Comic Art in America
1959
Becker, Stephen
387 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index