Consternation of the aesthetic young wife after designing a perfect color scheme – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Consternation of the aesthetic young wife after designing a perfect color scheme, a historic drawing rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Consternation of the aesthetic young wife after designing a perfect color scheme
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In this drawing, a young wife stands aghast at a room she has just finished decorating, as if her carefully chosen color scheme has been ruined in an instant. The subject tags also list smoking, which suggests the cigarette is the intruder that spoils her arrangement. Published in June 1929, the drawing reflects a moment when modern home decoration had become a fashionable pursuit for urban households, and cartoonists found easy comedy in its anxious standards of taste. The ink and watercolor finish, with white highlights, shows the crisp, graphic style common in magazine illustration of the period.
| Medium | 1 drawing : black ink and watercolor over pencil, with opaque white on watercolor board ; 50.1 x 36.8 cm. (sheet) |
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| Notes | 1929 June 7 [publication date] |
| Subjects | Interior decoration--1920-1930. Smoking--1920-1930. Spouses--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,077 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165696 |
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