{"title":"Morrow, George","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Morrow (1869-1955)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an Irish cartoonist and book illustrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Morrow was born in Belfast. He was the son of George Morrow, a painter and decorator from Clifton Street in west Belfast, and his wife, Catherine. George was the fifth of 8 children, with four of his siblings, \u003ca title=\"Albert Morrow\" href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/morrow-albert\"\u003eAlbert\u003c\/a\u003e, Jack, Edwin and Norman also working as artists. In April 1905, Morrow married a Dublin nurse, Mary Matilda McCracken at Ballyclare Presbyterian Church. Morrow attended the Belfast Government School of Art, graduating in 1891.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorrow contributed one work to an exhibition with the Belfast Rambler's Sketching Club in 1888 and four paintings to the Belfast Art Society exhibition in 1893. From the mid to late 1890s, he lived at 324 King's Road in Chelsea, where he made the acquaintance of Mark Twain. In 1896, Morrow showed a watercolour from Rudyard Kipling's book Strange Ride of Morrowby Jukes, in the Empire exhibition at Earl's Court. In the same year, he was published in Pick-Me-Up and Mary Russell Mitford's Country Stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge and his brother Albert were instrumental in the formation of the Ulster Arts Club in 1902. Both showed with three other brothers in the club's first exhibition alongside John Lavery, Hans Iten and FW Hull, at Fisherwick Place Belfast in November 1903. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1905, he contributed to the Ulster Literary Theatre's short-lived Ulad magazine and in the following year, was published in the first edition of the equally short-lived Shanachie. In 1906, he sat on the committee of the first Oireachtas Art Exhibition with Jack Butler Yeats and Sarah Purser, and in the following year he showed two works at the Oireachtas exhibition of 1907. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore significantly the year 1906 marked the beginning of Morrow's long association with Punch. In 50 years Morrow was to contribute 2,704 cartoons to the publication, of which 22 were full-page political cartoons. He joined the staff of the magazine in 1924 and was appointed art editor in 1932, a position he held until 1937. Morrow then retired as editor and was succeeded by 'Fougasse'. In 1940 Morrow returned to the magazine to fill the position of assistant literary editor due to the staff shortages of WW2. Other publications he contributed to included the Bystander, The Pall Mall Magazine, Sphere, Strand Magazine, Tatler, Windsor Magazine and the Radio Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorrow was a founder of the Society of Humorous Art and was represented at the inaugural exhibition in 1912, alongside W Heath Robinson. By 1917 George Morrow was a household name when he joined his brother Albert, and 150 artists and writers, in petitioning the British Prime Minister Lloyd George to find a way of enacting the unsigned codicil to Hugh Lane's will and establish a gallery to house Lane's art collection in Dublin. Amongst the 32 notable artists who signed this petition were Jack B Yeats, Sir William Orpen, Sir John Lavery, and Augustus John.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorrow also designed posters for the London Underground between the years 1918 to 1931. Morrow donated a picture of a mounted knight confronting a cheerful dragon upon an invitation from the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for inclusion in their centenary publication. The volume is a virtual who's-who of Ulster artists, writers and musicians of the time. Morrow's work was later displayed in 1945 in a solo exhibition of 100 Punch drawings at the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor many years Morrow produced Royal Academy Depressions, a series of comic parodies of Royal Academy pictures. Several collections of his cartoons were published including An Alphabet of the War (1915) which reprinted cartoons from Punch Almanack. He also illustrated more than 70 books by other authors for adults and children. He collaborated in producing 12 books with E.V. Lucas, who was the editor of Punch from 1932 to 1949. Their best loved title was the satirical life story of a fictional English aristocrat, What a Life! An Autobiography published in 1911. Morrow also had a number of books published by Methuen, under his own name - George Morrow: His Book (1920), More Morrow (1921) and Some More (1928). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorrow lived most of his adult life in London, although he spent many summers painting watercolours in Ireland, mainly in County Donegal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorrow had no children and died at his home in Thaxted, Essex on 18 January 1955 aged 85, one month after his last cartoon appeared in Punch.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"morrow-george-1869-1955-the-quarrel-1921","title":"Morrow, George (1869-1955) - The Quarrel 1921","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis picture by Irish artist George Morrow was published in The Chummy Book, a children's annual from 1921. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image, in JPEG format, that is 600dpi and 3717 pixels wide by 4635 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/morrow-george\" title=\"George Morrow\"\u003eGeorge Morrow\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53608114979146,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Morrow_George_1869-1955_-TheChummyBook1921-TheQuarrel_main.jpg?v=1767259148"},{"product_id":"morrow-george-1869-1955-the-reprieve-1921","title":"Morrow, George (1869-1955) - The Reprieve 1921","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis picture by Irish artist George Morrow was published in The Chummy Book, a children's annual from 1921. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image, in JPEG format, that is 600dpi and 3738 pixels wide by 4655 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca title=\"George Morrow\" href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/morrow-george\"\u003eGeorge Morrow\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53608175829322,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Morrow_George_1869-1955_-TheChummyBook1921-TheReprieve_main.jpg?v=1767259147"},{"product_id":"new-for-2026-bundle","title":"New for 2026 - 476 Image Value Bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere we have bundled together works from artists who enter the public domain on 1st January 2026. 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