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Jim 'Stick' Walsh (1893-1991) A delightful Jgouache on paper painting. Features The Fourth Royal Irish Dragoon Guards and dating to 1924 in Walsh's caricatural style. Signed and dated bottom right. Housed in a black wooden frame behind glass.
Jim Walsh, born in 1893 in Battersea, was a GPO messenger and postman. From 1926, he worked for the Post Office journal ‘The Post’, and continued there until he retired, using the name "Stick". From the late 1920s he drew caricatures of many prominent people for publication in The Post and elsewhere, designed a War Memorial for the Union of Post Office Workers, and devised maps to help London postmen
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