The Admirable Hostess

The Admirable Hostess

The Admirable Hostess

Date1921
Artist (American artist, illustrator, and sculptor, 1888–1949)
Illustration CitationAdvertisement for Wallace Silver, published in The Saturday Evening Post, January 8, 1921
MediumPastel on board
Dimensions30 1/8 × 28 5/8 in. (76.5 × 72.7 cm)
frame: 34 × 30 × 1 1/4 in. (86.4 × 76.2 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2022
Object number2022-35
On View
On view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis illustration appeared in an advertisement for Wallace Silver, with an image of a table setting reproduced below this chic woman. In the ad, the illustrator, Neysa McMein, is identified below the picture. McMein was famous for her magazine covers featuring beautiful and stylish (but unsmiling) women like this one, and the advertisers must have hoped to capitalize on her celebrity to sell their product.
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