Popularity à la Mode. Mrs. Hightone — I hear that your new Rector is very popular. Mrs. DeStyle — Popular? Yes, indeed! Why, we are thinking of having his sermons dramatized.

Popularity à la Mode. Mrs. Hightone — I hear that your new Rector is very popular. Mrs. DeStyle — Popular? Yes, indeed! Why, we are thinking of having his sermons dramatized.
Popularity à la Mode. Mrs. Hightone — I hear that your new Rector is very popular. Mrs. DeStyle — Popular? Yes, indeed! Why, we are thinking of having his sermons dramatized.

Popularity à la Mode. Mrs. Hightone — I hear that your new Rector is very popular.
Mrs. DeStyle — Popular? Yes, indeed! Why, we are thinking of having his sermons dramatized.

Date1901
Artist (American artist, cartoonist, and writer 1874–1944)
Illustration CitationPuck 49, no. 1270 (July 3, 1901), p. 15
MediumInk and blue pencil on paper
Dimensions21 3/8 × 15 1/8 in. (54.3 × 38.4 cm)
mat: 26 1/4 × 20 in. (66.7 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980
Object number1980-212
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ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextOnce she moved to New York from her native rural Nebraska, Rose O’Neill became a regular contributor to Puck, the nation’s leading humor magazine. Here, she portrays two society ladies mocking a pompous clergyman.

In 1909, O’Neill created drawings of elf-like babies she called Kewpies. Her patented Kewpie doll gained international fame, along with an array of Kewpie merchandise such as tableware and toys.

O’Neill was an ardent supporter of American women’s right to vote (not granted until 1920), as well as an advocate for the reform of women’s fashions, asking “How can (women) hope to compete with men when they are boxed up tight in the clothes that are worn today?”


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