Taylor couldn't be expected to know it, but when they start in straightening your tie they mean business
Date1923
Artist
Raeburn Van Buren
(American illustrator, 1891–1987)
Illustration Citation"Mary, Mary, not so Unwary," by Sewell Ford, in The Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1924
MediumCharcoal and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 12 1/8 × 17 3/8 in. (30.8 × 44.1 cm)
sheet: 15 1/4 × 20 13/16 in. (38.7 × 52.9 cm)
sheet: 15 1/4 × 20 13/16 in. (38.7 × 52.9 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1986
Object number1986-37
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextRaebrun Van Buren was both a cartoonist and a magazine story illustrator. Here, a middle-aged widower talks with his new fiancée as she adjusts his tie. After this scene, the story centers on the man's infatuation with an adventurous younger woman, an interlude he ends as he realizes that he prefers a predicable domestic life rather than a sophisticated but risky one.
