Frank Arthur Nankivell

Frank Arthur Nankivell (1869-1959) was an Australian artist.

Nankivell was born Maldon, northwest of Castlemaine, Victoria in 1869. He was a book illustrator in New York circles of the 1910's and 20's on such publications as Puck which was America's first successful humor magazine. He was a large influence on the manga artist Rakuten Kitazawa.

Nankivell studied art at Wesley College, Melbourne. He later travelled to Japan, earn a living as a cartoonist in Tokyo where he made the acquaintance of Rakuten Kitazawa who later became father of the Japanese comic art now known as Manga. Nankivell left Japan in 1894 to study art in San Francisco. He left for New York in 1896 where he worked on magazines as a popular and influencial cartoonist devoting his work mainly to social subjects and to State and Federal political issues. Nankivell remained in New York until 1913.

Nankivell later became a member of the New York Circumnavigator Club, which was open only to those who had circumnavigated the globe longitudinally, by land and/or sea. Other members included Ernest Hemingway and Harry Houdini

Several examples of his work are held in the collections of The Smithsonian in Washington DC.

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