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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.
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- Helen Hokinson
- Alice Harvey
- Barbara Shermund
- Mary Petty
- Roberta Macdonald
- Looking Forward to The Future of Women Cartoonists
Hokinson published her first drawing in The New Yorker on July 4, 1925, beginning a wildly successful professional relationship with the magazine that would last for more than twenty years. Hokinson’s early cartoons focused on the young upper class “New Woman” independently navigating urban life in the city’s streets, stores, offices, and cultural ...
Alice Harvey and Helen Hokinson became friends while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied under Wallace Morgan, whose influence is immediately apparent in her line work that is full of energy and movement. Harvey and Hokinson were roommates and both attended the School of Fine and Applied Arts (now Parsons School ...
Barbara Shermund published her first cartoon in The New Yorker in January 1926. Like Hokinson, Shermund chose the “New Woman” as her primary subject and her early drawings have a decidedly feminist edge. Whether brazenly confident or slightly clueless, Shermund’s women in her early cartoons were not afraid to openly voice their views on dating, mar...
Mary Petty began selling cartoons to The New Yorkerin October 1927. Unlike most other cartoonists drawing for the magazine at this point, Petty was not formally trained as an artist, and distinct from her peers of women cartoonists, Petty was more concerned with social consciousness than gender. Her wry humor tended to focus on class dynamics, whic...
Roberta MacDonald sold her first drawings to The New Yorkeron May 4, 1940, joining the magazine at a time when some of the regular men cartoonists were fighting in World War II. MacDonald’s early work showed her interest in politics and she frequently drew women at work, and notably, in the military as members of the Women’s Army Corps. Donnelly no...
As Donnelly states, in the early days of The New Yorker, women cartoonists presented their world as a valid subject and fertile ground for humor. (76) The publication’s birth in 1925 coincided with a pivotal cultural shift in the country’s views toward women. While cultural attitudes toward women changed over the decades, The New Yorker’s cartoonis...
Apr 10, 2018 · Helen Hokinson, or “Hoky” as her friends called her, contributed nearly 1,800 cartoons and vignettes and 68 cover designs to The New Yorker in the first half of the 20th century.
Helen E. Hokinson Original Ink & Wash Artist Board. Title: "Just Say 'Entertaining a Few of the Younger Set at Bridge' " 18" x 14". Signed. Helen E Hokinson 1893-1949 was a staff cartoonist for the Ne...from
Butter Bus. 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.
