"Izzy, I'm Going to New York." Just like that. He was going to see Rachel. Isabel said "Oh."
Date1952
Artist
Barbara Schwinn Jordan
(American illustrator, born 1907)
Illustration Citation"That Creative Urge," by Elizabeth P. Turner, in The Ladies' Home Journal, June 1952
MediumGouache and watercolor on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 15 13/16 × 17 3/16 in. (40.2 × 43.7 cm)
sheet: 18 7/16 × 17 5/16 in. (46.8 × 44 cm)
sheet: 18 7/16 × 17 5/16 in. (46.8 × 44 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jacob Kantor, 1991
Object number1991-149
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this scene, a young woman is uninterested when she hears that a friend is planning to visit his girl friend. Before the end of the story, the plot turns and the two depicted here fall in love and plan to marry.Barbara Schwinn Jordan included two Hardoy chairs, named after designer Jorge Ferrari Hardoy and also called the butterfly or sling chair, which became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. The design fit the increasing informality of the times. As one critic pointed out,
"the (chair) was...a rejection of good posture and formal clothing." Its curvilinear structure was a change from the more hard-edged profiles of the earlier decade. The illustrator's brightly-colored background is typical of The Ladies' Home Journal's approach to design, fashion, and home décor at the time.
Barbara Schwinn Jordan
1948
