Basile carried Toinette's bags to the station...
Date1931
Artist
Charles DeFeo
(American painter and illustrator, 1892–1978)
Illustration Citation"Play Girl," by Margaret Bell Houston, in American Magazine, July 1931
MediumWatercolor and graphite on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 cm)
sheet: 11 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (29.5 × 29.8 cm)
sheet: 11 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (29.5 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1981
Object number1981-35
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis story centers on Toinette and her husband Basile. After Toinette has success as an extra when a film crew comes to her Louisiana town, she is ready to pursue more lucrative work in New York City. While Basile agrees to their temporary separation for the sake of her career, he is nervous about how it will affect their marriage. Born in New Castle, Delaware, Charles DeFeo moved to New York City when he was twenty years old and enjoyed a long career in magazine illustration and advertising art.
American Magazine, founded in 1906 as a muckraking journal, gradually began to feature more fiction. While it often presented writers best known for light magazine fiction, the magazine also published authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Upton Sinclair.
