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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.
Jun 25, 2024 · Helen Hokinson was an American cartoonist best known for her gently satirical drawings of plump, slightly bewildered suburban matrons and clubwomen. Her “girls” were unworldly and naïve, concerned with diets, hats, propriety, and the diligent pursuit of culture and self-improvement.
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Jul 22, 2013 · With a kindred methodical thoroughness, she settled on a signature that employed everything but her middle name—Helen E. Hokinson (the "E" standing for Elna). Her women appeared slightly befuddled, but Hokinson never ridiculed her creations for their inability to grasp the utilitarian world.
One of the 20th century's most influential cartoonists, Helen Hokinson (1893-1949) chronicled the social comings and goings of the middle-aged American matron in the pages of the New Yorker for nearly a quarter century.
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.
Hokinson, Helen E. (1893–1949) American artist known for her cartoons for The New Yorker during the 1920s and 1930s . Born Helen Elna Hokinson on June 29, 1893, in Mendota, Illinois; died on November 1, 1949, in a plane crash near Washington, D.C.; only child of Adolph Hokinson (a salesman) and Mary (Wilcox) Hokinson; graduated from Mendota ...
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.
