Photo, Print, Drawing [Wife dressed for work kisses sleeping husband good-bye] / R. Macdonald.

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- Title
- [Wife dressed for work kisses sleeping husband good-bye] / R. Macdonald.
- Contributor Names
- Macdonald, R. (Roberta), artist
- Created / Published
- [1943?]
- Subject Headings
- - World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects
- - Women--Employment--1940-1950
- - Role reversal--1940-1950
- - Spouses--1940-1950
- - Kissing--1940-1950
- - Sleeping--1940-1950
- Headings
- Drawings--American--1940-1950.
- Editorial cartoons--American--1940-1950.
- Genre
- Editorial cartoons--American--1940-1950
- Drawings--American--1940-1950
- Notes
- - Caption label from exhibit Drawn to Purpose Themes and Genres: Role Reversal. Roberta MacDonald created this gently humorous cartoon during the World War II era when thousands of women entered the work force. Unlike many cartoonists at that time, she depicted women in the military and other jobs. With witty humor, she poked fun at her own gender's preoccupation with appearance, gender relations, and high-handed personalities, publishing more than one hundred cartoons in the New Yorker from 1940-1952. As the magazine selected less and less of her work, she turned increasingly to book illustration.
- - Title from item.
- - Signed lower left.
- - Published in: The New Yorker, September 25, 1943.
- - Exhibited: "Drawn to Purpose" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - March 2018.
- - Accession box no. PR 06 CN 315
- Medium
- 1 drawing : ink, opaque white, and graphite ; sheet 23.4 x 27.0 cm.
- Call Number/Physical Location
- Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 315 [item] [P&P]
- Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Digital Id
- ppmsca 33574 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.33574
- Library of Congress Control Number
- 2013645744
- Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-33574 (digital file from original item)
- Rights Advisory
- Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions...," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html
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- LCCN Permalink
- https://lccn.loc.gov/2013645744
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