Xie Zhiguang & an old Cartoon

Posted: May 5th, 2021 | No Comments »

Recently I wrote an article for the South China Morning Post on the old Shanghai Art Academy (click here). Xie Zhiguang was one of the leading graduates who went on to work in many areas of commercial art – including calendar girls – and later, after 1949, socialist realist art. But is he the man in this cartoon – it was drawn in the early or mid-1930s by the well known Shanghai-based Russian emigre cartoonist Sapajou for Carl Crow. Xie worked for Crow’s advertising agency. But is this him?

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