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Born in [[San Francisco]], he studied at the [[Mark Hopkins Art Institute]] for six months, started his career as an unpaid cartoonist for ''[[The San Francisco Examiner]]''.<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://www.tomfolio.com/autographimg.asp?sigid=297&ret=AGIni TomFolio.com: Rea Irvin, Author Autograph Sample, Book List Link, Search Books Available<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He also contributed to the ''[[San Francisco Evening Post]]''. He also worked as an itinerant actor (for both stage and screen), newspaper illustrator, and piano player.<ref name=autogenerated4 /> In 1906 he moved to the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]]. In the 1910s he contributed many illustrations to both ''[[Redbook|Red Book]]'' magazine and its sister publication, ''[[Green Book (magazine)|Green Book]]''.<ref name=autogenerated2 />
Before [[World War I]], Irvin contributed illustrations regularly to ''
He also created a series of humorous [[advertisements]] for ''[[Murad (cigarette)|Murad]]'' [[cigarettes]].<ref name=autogenerated1 />
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