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.

© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum…
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
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.
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

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
Artist (American illustrator, 1893–1963)
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
ClassificationsDRAWING
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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