Fresh Fruit Season All the Year Round - Kia-Ora (1950)

1950sFood and Drink
Written By Zara Picken

Year: 1950

Format: Print Advert

Illustrator: John Hanna (1919-1992)

Client: Kia-Ora

Details: I found this advert for Kia-Ora in a copy of the Illustrated London News from 1950. The artist is John Hanna (1919-1992).

Hanna was born in Melbourne, Australia and started working as a satirical cartoonist at the age of 20. He emigrated to England in 1947, where he worked in the art department of advertising agency SH Benson.

Hanna became a freelance illustrator in 1950 - this illustration must have been one of his earliest freelance commissions. He returned to Australia in the 1960s to work as an art director, before once again turning freelance.

Zara Picken
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