A Finishing School

A Finishing School
A Finishing School

A Finishing School

Date1920
Artist (American Illustrator and comic artist, 1886–1944)
Illustration Citation"A Finishing School," nationally syndicated by International Feature Service. Appeared in The Washington Times, January 2, 1920
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 14 1/4 × 11 in. (36.2 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 in. (44.8 × 33 cm)
frame: 26 3/8 × 22 3/8 × 1 in. (67 × 56.8 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2014
Object number2014-7
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextNell Brinkley was so famous that these delicately drawn, curly haired beauties would have been immediately recognizable as "Brinkley Girls" around 1920. Brinkley's drawings of idealized women, handsome suitors, and cavorting cupids circulated nationally in newspapers. Here, her stylish subjects study a "map of the heart," seeking the shortest possible line to reach it.
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