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Helen Elna Hokinson (June 29, 1893 – November 1, 1949) was an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Over a 20-year span, she contributed 68 covers and more than 1,800 cartoons to The New Yorker.
The collection consists of more than 340 cartoons, cover drawings, and concept sketches in ink, pencil, watercolor, crayon, and charcoal on paper that were created for The New Yorker magazine by Helen E. Hokinson.
Jul 22, 2018 · Perhaps the most famous of the women cartoonists in those early years was Helen Hokinson, whose every stroke of the pen inexplicably seemed to carry humor. As the cartoons became a more...
Mar 18, 2021 · Helen Hokinson (1893-1949) Helen Hokinson, “I never realized it was going to overbalance me.” Cartoon for The New Yorker, published August 22, 1931. Ink and wash on paper. Sold July 2020 in our sale of Illustration Art for $594.
Helen E. Hokinson American. 1932. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774. Helen Hokinson, one of the country’s most celebrated cartoonists, also worked briefly in pottery, creating small ceramic figural works.
Reminiscing. One of the best known and beloved cartoonists for the New Yorker, Helen Hokinson created appealing upper-class female characters that graced the magazine from 1925–1949. Admirers tended to regard them as charming, kind, ingenuous women given to short enthusiasms.
Title: There are Ladies Present. Author: Helen E. Hokinson (American, Mendota, Illinois 1893–1949 Washington, D.C.) Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company (New York, NY) Date: 1952. Medium: Illustrations: commercial process. Classification: Books. Credit Line: Gift of Janet S. Byrne, 1979. Accession Number: 1979.681.5.
