Lot 783
Hokinson, Helen E. (Lot I) (1893-1949) American illustrator. From its beginning in 1925, until her death 1949, Hokinson was one of the premier cartoonists at New Yorker magazine. Hokinson's well-to-do club women, with their fur wraps and elegant hats, became a distinctive part of New Yorker's famous repertoire of characters and images and are instantly recognizable even today.
Lot of two colored illustrations created for the cover of New Yorker magazine (Hokinson has inked in the magazine's title). Ink and watercolor on paper. Sheet size: 12¼ x 15½", image size: 9 x 12". Both images are stamped verso with The New Yorker Magazine copyright statement.
Illustration A features two of Hokinson's club women meeting at the Yale/Harvard football game, both apparently conflicted about which team to favor. Signed in the lower margin, labeled in red pencil "989" at lower left corner of margin, toning (acid burns) at top margin would be easily matted out, as would smudges at right margin. Very good to fine condition.
Illustration B features a woman offering flowers to her butcher and the date, August 1945, offers some context -- celebrating the end of rationing or thanks for a little extra during the War. Mounted on heavy stock, signed in lower right corner, stamped "August 14, 1945", pencil notations around margins include "283" (in red), "We have the finished drawing", "Killed" and "9/15/45." Several pinholes around margin, some soil around margins and light soil in body of illustration, adhesive residue on verso -- only one corner remains attached to the backing, four water (or coffee?) stains at the right and bottom margins. The flaws and soil would be easily matted out and this piece is a wonderful record of the process of accepting illustrations at The New Yorker Magazine.
Estimated Value $450 - 500.
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