Careers for Our Girls: The Film Star
Date1928
Artist
Anne Harriet Fish
(British illustrator and cartoonist, 1890–1964)
Illustration CitationUnpublished illustration for Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan, December 1928
MediumGouache, ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensionscomposition (left): 19 1/8 × 13 1/2 in. (48.6 × 34.3 cm)
sheet (left): 22 13/16 × 15 1/2 in. (57.9 × 39.4 cm)
composition (right): 19 1/8 × 13 1/2 in. (48.6 × 34.3 cm)
sheet (right): 22 5/8 × 15 1/2 in. (57.5 × 39.4 cm)
22 13/16 × 31 in. (57.9 × 78.7 cm)
sheet (left): 22 13/16 × 15 1/2 in. (57.9 × 39.4 cm)
composition (right): 19 1/8 × 13 1/2 in. (48.6 × 34.3 cm)
sheet (right): 22 5/8 × 15 1/2 in. (57.5 × 39.4 cm)
22 13/16 × 31 in. (57.9 × 78.7 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2023
Object number2023-82
On View
On viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis cartoon was one of a series called "Careers for Our Girls," which ran for several months in Cosmopolitan in 1928. The careers are all very modern—another example is an airplane pilot—and played for comic effect. This example was not published though it is inscribed as being for December 1928. Boxes below each picture would have contained witty text explaining what the heroine was up to in each vignette. Placed in a position of service with stereotyped features, the Black porter is typical of the racist manner in which African Americans were depicted in mass-market white media in the 1920s.
