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(26) Housewife, wearing bunny cocktail outfit, greets husband with a drink as he enters the front door, 1971.
Published without caption in the New Yorker, January 15, 1972.
Watercolor and ink brush with white out over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03305 (26)
Increasing divorce rates, women's liberation, and society's emphasis on sexuality in the 1970s led many Americans to reconsider the institution of marriage. George Price (1901-1995) uses his angular, almost cubist style to lampoon women going to great lengths to keep the spark in their relationships with men. In this gag cartoon, the unsuspecting husband walks through the door moments before his equally aged wife dressed in a Playboy bunny outfit and high heels surprises him. Price, a cartoonist with the New Yorker from 1932 to 1995, once said, "If the situation is funny enough it shouldn't require a line." |