Illustrator John Gannam (1905-1965) was born in Lebanon but came to the United States with his parents in 1909. As a child he lived in Indianapolis. He received his art education in Chicago and worked in commercial art in Detroit and New York. Here is an illustration for Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther (1940), taking the form of a piece of commercial art advertising the Air Transport Association of Washington, D.C. The image is from National Geographic, February 1944, now eighty and a half years in the past.
Text copyright 2024 Terence E. Hanley
