At the end of four days he was reconciling himself to obscurity for the rest of the season when the voice of Carson, assistant coach, singled him suddenly out of a crowd of scrub backs.

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At the end of four days he was reconciling himself to obscurity for the rest of the season when the voice of Carson, assistant coach, singled him suddenly out of a crowd of scrub backs.
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At the end of four days he was reconciling himself to obscurity for the rest of the season when the voice of Carson, assistant coach, singled him suddenly out of a crowd of scrub backs.

Date1929
Illustration Citation"Basil and Cleopatra," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Saturday Evening Post, April 27, 1929
MediumCharcoal, graphite, and watercolor on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineJohn Sloan Purchase Fund, 1981
Object number1981-62
On View
Not on view
Label TextYale undergraduate Basil (left foreground) is in love with a woman named Minnie, whose beauty gains her the nickname Cleopatra. His preoccupation with her leads to troubles such as failing football skills.

Henrietta McCaig Starrett worked as a fashion illustrator before her career in magazine illustration for The Saturday Evening Post and The Ladies' Home Journal.
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