Without thinking, without caring, he walked two steps out on the floor

© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum…
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
Without thinking, without caring, he walked two steps out on the floor
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Without thinking, without caring, he walked two steps out on the floor

Date1929
Artist (American illustrator, 1873–1949)
Illustration Citation"Honor," by Charles Wertenbaker, in The Saturday Evening Post, August 3, 1929
MediumCharcoal and watercolor on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 20 3/16 × 16 7/16 in. (51.3 × 41.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-150
On View
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ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this story, a blind college student (in blue jacket at right) steps onto a dance floor, trying to locate the woman he is in love with. The prominent lattice posted with announcements at his right plays a role in the plot.

May Wilson Preston attended the Art Students League in New York from 1892 through 1897 but left when, as a woman, she was not allowed to attend life drawing classes, an experience that led to her activity in the struggle for women's rights. An illustrator for many major magazines, she was one of the few early female associate members of the Society of Illustrators in New York. Women were not admitted to full membership until the 1920s.
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