Brena had said, "It is after two. I am hungry and I am cold."
Date1919
Artist
Arthur E. Becher
(American artist and illustrator, 1877–1960)
Illustration Citation"The Vanishing Men," by Richard Washburn Child, in Collier's Weekly, October 4, 1919
MediumCrayon on illustration board
Dimensions17 7/8 × 21 1/2 in. (45.4 × 54.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Frieda Becher, 1971
Object number1971-32
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextChild's romantic story presents American millionaire Peter De Wolfe, in London after World War I and infatuated the British Brena Selcoss, who seems to have a mysterious secret. Eventually she tells him that her estranged husband has a way of making men who admire her vanish without trace. A lawyer, diplomat and political activist as a defender of Italian Fascism, Child also became editor of Collier's Weekly the year this storied was published in the magazine.
