Arthur Wallis Mills (1878-1940)
Wallis Mills was born in Sussex and studied art at the South Kensington Schools. R G G Price, in his history of the magazine (1957), somewhat churlishly described Mills’ work as being ‘banal in caption and amateurish in drawing.’ He was a better artist than Price acknowledges and his long association with Punch (from 1905 to 1939) bears this out.
Sources and further reading
Bryant M and Heneage S (1994), Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, Scolar Press
Dolman B (1981), A Dictionary of British Artists, 1929, Antique Collectors’ Club
Johnson J and Greutzner A (1999), British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors’ Club
Price R G G (1957), A History of Punch, Collins
Waters G M (1975), Dictionary of British Artists 1900-1950, Eastbourne Fine Art
Wallis Mills was born in Sussex and studied art at the South Kensington Schools. R G G Price, in his history of the magazine (1957), somewhat churlishly described Mills’ work as being ‘banal in caption and amateurish in drawing.’ He was a better artist than Price acknowledges and his long association with Punch (from 1905 to 1939) bears this out.
Sources and further reading
Bryant M and Heneage S (1994), Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, Scolar Press
Dolman B (1981), A Dictionary of British Artists, 1929, Antique Collectors’ Club
Johnson J and Greutzner A (1999), British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors’ Club
Price R G G (1957), A History of Punch, Collins
Waters G M (1975), Dictionary of British Artists 1900-1950, Eastbourne Fine Art