[Dancing couples, no. 1] (LOC)

Fish, Anne Harriet,, 1890-1964,, artist.

 

[Dancing couples, no. 1]

 

1920 Mar. [publication date]

 

1 drawing on off-white wove paper : black ink, watercolor, and gouache, with painted overlays ; 68.5 x 54.8 cm (sheet)

 

Notes:

Drawing shows several couples dance in formal attire. Most of the women wear hoop skirts, while the men wear tuxedos. A half-length woman at the lower right, watches those on the dance floor.

Caption label from exhibit Drawn to Purpose--Magazine Covers and Cartoons: Change in the Air. Anne Harriet Fish's depiction of women and men pressed closely together, torso to torso, while bounding across space conveys the physical exhilaration of dance. Such visual exuberance fits a new dynamic in social relations between the sexes and invites readers to explore the magazine's contents. Designing more than 30 cover designs for Vanity Fair, Fish also created elegant cartoon, caricature, and illustration drawings that were published in other magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan.

Title devised by Library staff. DLC

Inscribed above image: Vanity Fair.

Inscribed below image: Conde Nast Publisher, Price 1/6 Net.

No copyright information found with item.

Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1651)

Published as cover of: Vanity Fair (New York), March, 1920.

Exhibited: "They Made Them Laugh and Wince and Worry" at the Library of Congress, 1977-82.

Exhibited: "Drawn to Purpose" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - March 2018.

 

Subjects:

Dance--1920.

 

Format: Periodical illustrations--1920.

Drawings--British--Color--1920.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright Office.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature & cartoon (Library of Congress) (DLC) 93845503

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.37418

 

Call Number: SWANN - no. 1519

 

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