On such occasions she wondered whether his manner was not too effusive.

© Artist or Publisher. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction…
© Artist or Publisher
On such occasions she wondered whether his manner was not too effusive.
© Artist or Publisher. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

On such occasions she wondered whether his manner was not too effusive.

Date1930
Artist (American painter, 1892–1967)
Illustration Citation"Adjustment," by Octavius Roy Cohen, in Collier's Weekly, February 22, 1930
MediumWatercolor, gouache, charcoal, and graphite on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 14 1/2 × 9 3/8 in. (36.8 × 23.8 cm)
sheet: 18 1/4 × 11 1/4 in. (46.4 × 28.6 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1984
Object number1984-1
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this one-page story, a wife who has used an inheritance to buy a car as a gift for her husband begins to wonder if he values her only for her money. In the happy ending, she is proven wrong.

C. C. Beall was a versatile illustrator, working steadily through the 1930s and 1940s for such popular magazines as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. Watercolor and gouache were his preferred media. He was also the Art Director for the National Democratic Party during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, creating war posters and portraits of decorated veterans.


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