Oh you needn't worry about what you show me, I'm trying to be silly

© The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for rep…
© The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.
Oh you needn't worry about what you show me, I'm trying to be silly
© The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Oh you needn't worry about what you show me, I'm trying to be silly

Date1945
Artist (American illustrator, 1893–1949)
Illustration CitationThe New Yorker, September 15, 1945
MediumInk and wash on paper
Dimensionssheet: 15 × 20 1/2 in. (38.1 × 52.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1988
Object number1988-61
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextHelen Hokinson's cartoons satirized matrons and clubwomen uttering remarks that showed their preoccupation with their own lives and the accoutrements of upper-middle-class life and proper behavior.




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