Reidford Cartoons

Since 1763 the name 'Russborough' has been synonymous with collecting and dealing in fine art. In the closing decades of the last century the historic town of Port Hope has become home to Lord Russborough's Annex, which specialises in an individual mix of antique maps, paintings and prints.

While Lord Russborough's Annex features a great many works of museum calibre, we also offer a wonderful selection of prints priced at under $100.

An extract of other Reidford cartoons currently available:

"Anyone here from the west" Caricatures Eugene Whelan then Minister of Agriculture attending World Agricultural Talks.

‘Taking in his own washing’ Caricatures WAC. ‘Wacky’ Bennett’s government coin laundry the premier of BC. is seen laundering money to raise money for financing BC. Hydro.

‘You’ve forgotton your broom again, Lester’ Caricatures Prime Minister Lester Pearson flying blithely over the Parliament buildings as the Dorian Report Gathers dust.

‘Well, fancy seeing you here’ Caricatures Paul Martin snr. and William Davis of Ontario at opposite ends of the Canada Pension Plan.



	'NATO NUCLEAR FORCE' An original manuscript editorial cartoon drawing signed by the artist, drawn for the Globe & Mail Newspaper 1963. Caricatures Paul Hellyer envisaging Charles DeGaulle of France as an Identified Flying Nuclear Bomb. Paul Hellyer, the Liberal party's defence critic, played a key role in the change of policy. Hellyer had missed the CCND ‘s November lobby because he was in Paris attending the NATO Parliamentary Conference. It was this conference that changed his views on nuclear weapons, and ultimately, the party's policy. India ink over graphite on Strathmore paper. Signed ‘Reidford’ (Lower Right). Glazed, black & Giltwood frame. 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 ” (36.8 x 29.2 cm.) 15 1/8 x 12 1/8” Ref. TG 4/VL/dd.annr> DVL PRICE CODE B James ‘Jamie’ G. Reidford was born in Scotland in 1911, and came to Toronto as a baby with his family. He studied at the Ontario College of Art and was employed as a commercial artist in Toronto and London in the early 1930’s. He moved to Los Angeles in the U.S. in 1938 and studied at the Chouinard Institute. He worked as an animator for the Walt Disney Studios for several years. He returned to Canada and in 1941, began working as an editorial cartoonist for the Montréal Star. In 1951 he moved to the Globe & Mail where he worked till his retirement in 1972. Reidford won National Newspaper Awards as Canada's best cartoonist three times (1950, 1956, and 1957). After his retirement he moved to an artists' colony in Mexico. James Reidford died in 2001. Return to Caricature page

Reidford Cartoons

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