Existing comment:
(53) Man with car getting directions from a man standing on store porch during winter, between 1920 and 1935.
Ink and watercolor with opaque white over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03610 (53)
© Estate of John Held, Jr. Permission of Illustration House, Inc.
A lively winter scene by John Held, Jr., (1889-1958), pictures a motorist and his dog stopped in front of a country store to ask directions from a man on the front steps. Onlookers include a man holding a jug in the foreground, another driving a wooden sleigh, and a woman passerby on the other side of the store. Shown from above, Held's heavily-clad figures have the stylized, balloon shaped heads and abbreviated features typical of his work from the 1920s and early 1930s. His iconic images of flappers, their male cohorts, and other young sophisticates of the 1920s came to epitomize the Jazz Age. |