Existing comment:
(35) "All enjoying yourselves? That's splendid," 1938.
Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-07176 (35)
In this carefully rendered English church hall scene, the benevolent vicar smiles upon his
middle-class parishioners gathered for a whist drive charity event. Leslie Illingworth (1902 -1979) carefully rendered the coal stove, the hats on the windowsill, the tea ladies making preparations, and the faces of the players, most of whom appear miserable though some are puzzled, bored, panicked, angry, and distrustful. He portrays the working-class crowd outside the window as downright happy. Illingworth, an energetic illustrator, worked as a cartoonist for the Cardiff (Wales) Western Mail and the Daily Mail (London). |