I hate you and I want you to die
Date1954
Artist
Robert Fawcett
(American illustrator, 1903-1967)
Illustration Citation"My Brother's Keeper," by Marcia Davenport, in Good Housekeeping, July 1954.
MediumGouache, watercolor, and ink on illustration board
Dimensions16 × 26 in. (40.6 × 66 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1989
Object number1989-99
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextElegant surroundings and violent emotions are evident in Robert Fawcett's illustration for a scene in a fictionalized version of the 1947 case of the Collyer brothers, two wealthy but reclusive New York men whose corpses were discovered in a garbage-filled house. Born near London, Fawcett grew up in Ontario and New York City. He returned to England for art studies, which he completed in Paris. He stated his commitment to high quality in the illustrator's art: "We represent," he said, "the only view of art, of beauty, to millions of people. If we do less than our best, we cheat them."
Charles Davis Mitchell
1929
Stanley Massey Arthurs
1925
