"I'll Go," She Says -- "an' Fine an' Glad I'll Be to Go."
Date1900
Artist
George Hand Wright
(American illustrator and painter, 1872–1951)
Illustration Citation"The Return," by Anne O'Hagan, in Munsey's Magazine, April 1900
MediumInk, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 17 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (43.5 × 61.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sataloff, 1979
Object number1979-42
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextRural life is the backdrop for this story of an immigrant couple's marital disagreement in this narrative, classified by Munsey's as a "storiette." Besides capturing the expressions and gestures of the contentious couple, Wright's vignette-sytle drawing includes the details (the clock, the decorations on the mantel) that O'Hagan describes as signs that the couple's lives have improved since they arrived in the wilderness.George Hand Wright studied at the Spring Garden Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and then in Paris and Munich. Until 1907 he worked from New York before moving to Westport, Connecticut, where he was a founder of the town's art colony. He illustrated for various magazines, including Harper's, The Century, Scribner's and The Saturday Evening Post. He also exhibited his genre paintings nationally.
Charles Davis Mitchell
1929
