Gala Menu - P&O (1960)
Year: 1960
Format: Menu
Illustrator: John Hanna (1919-1992)
Client: P&O
Details: The illustration on this 1960 Gala menu from the P&O cruise ship Stratheden was created by 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.
He returned to Australia in the 1960s to work as an art director, before once again turning freelance.