Helen hokinson biography
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Helen E. Hokinson Cartoons for The New Yorker
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Scope and Contents
The collection consists of more than 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. Many were signed by the artist and few are dated except by stamps and notes applied by the magazine’s production staff. The drawings that are dated range from to , but in general the works are chiefly from the s and s. There are more than thirty drawings or sketches meant for covers (easily recognizable by the distinctive color bar running along the left edge of the image) as well as several multi-panel cartoons that read like storyboards (for example, Series VI, drawing So You’re Going to Have Your Picture Taken!).
The drawings primarily feature situations in which Hokinson’s iconic matrons interact with their friends, cultural colleague
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Helen E. Hokinson
American cartoonist
Helen Elna Hokinson (June 29, &#;&#; November 1, ) was an American cartoonist and a personal cartoonist for The New Yorker. Over a year span, she contributed 68 covers and more than 1, cartoons to The New Yorker.[1]
Life and career
[edit]She was born in Mendota, Illinois, the daughter of Adolph Hokinson, a farm machinery salesman, and Mary Hokinson, the daughter of Phineas Wilcox, the "Carpenter Orator". She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (now known as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and worked as a freelance mode illustrator in Chicago for department stores such as Marshall Field's.
In , Hokinson moved to New York City to work as a fashion illustrator and study at the School of Fine and Applied Arts (now Parsons School of Design).[1] Encouraged by an instructor she began submitting comic drawings to magazines, and became one of the first cartoonists to be published in The New Yorker, app
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Helen Elna Hokinson
One of the 20th century's most influential cartoonists, Helen Hokinson () chronicled the social comings and goings of the middle-aged American matron in the pages of the New Yorker for nearly a quarter century. She traded her early aspirations to become either a painter or a fashion illustrator for life as a cartoonist after one of her early cartooning efforts was accepted for publication by the newly founded magazine in Hokinson's cartoons were peopled with what came to be known as "those Hokinson ladies." The ladies of Hokinson's cartoons, all of them "slightly overweight, behatted, and ranging in mental state from outright addled to merely puzzled, populated garden clubs, library societies, civic meetings, and luncheons, and they entertained numberless notions and aspirations that were at once ridiculous and engagingly innocent," according to a profile of Hokinson in Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women.
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