Helen E. Hokinson's society club ladies were featured in many recurring cartoons in
The New Yorker. According to Brendan Gill's
Here at the New Yorker (1975), most of her gags were written by Richard McAllister.
This original cartoon art, fairly typical of Hokinson's ladies' meetings, was offered at Illustration House back in November 2001. It carried an estimate of $1,200 to $1,600 and was identified then as "probably
New Yorker." I don't know the hammer price. Now it has been sold on eBay, but only after the asking price was reduced from $2500 to $700.
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Helen E. Hokinson, "Life says it will send a photographer to our cake sale if it possibly can."
Preliminary artwork for the New Yorker, September 16, 1939, page 24 |
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Helen E. Hokinson, "Life says it will send a photographer to our cake sale if it possibly can."
Preliminary artwork for the New Yorker, September 16, 1939, page 24
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Helen E. Hokinson, "Life says it will send a photographer to our cake sale if it possibly can."
The New Yorker, September 16, 1939, page 24 |
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Helen E. Hokinson, "Life says it will send a photographer to our cake sale if it possibly can."
The New Yorker, September 16, 1939, page 24 |
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November 17, 2015 Update: This post has been modified to reflect that the featured Hokinson artwork sold is not quite the same as the final published cartoon in the magazine, despite all the New Yorker stamps and printer's marks that appear on the verso. Rather, it is a close variant. By the conventions of this blog, the artwork is therefore now referred to as preliminary.
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