Miguel Covarrubias Biography
a.k.a. Miguel Covarrubias, also known as José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud

at the age of 14, he started producing caricatures and illustrations for texts and training materials published by the Mexican Ministry of Public Education.

Soon afater arriving in New York Covarrubias was drawing for several top magazines, eventually becoming one of Vanity Fair magazine's premier caricaturists.   Covarrubias’ style was highly influential in America, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, and his artwork and caricatures of influential politicians and artists were featured on the covers of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

A man of many talents, he also began to design sets and costumes for the theater including Caroline Dudley Reagan's La Revue Negre starring Josephine Baker in the show that made her a smash in Paris.

The linear nature of his drawing style was highly influential to other caricaturists such as Al Hirschfeld