George Hughes
Messy Room, Neat Boys: Post Cover
1955

Name: Messy Room, Neat Boys: Post Cover
Brand: George Hughes
Price: 229000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1955. The Post described, “Mother is making rapid progress at teaching the boys to maintain a tidy room; if George Hughes had painted this the day school opened, the detail would have given him a lame arm. Now, here is portrayed an intelligent female who in her delicate way molds the character of men; so when her boys are seniors in college, they will be 27 per cent tidier than now. Then they will get married and never leave so much as a pipe cleaner lying about—for six weeks. After that they will revert to human beings, and what they don’t chuck around will be what they haven’t got. A woman’s picking-up-stuff is never done. Why doesn't this mother shock the boys into tidy conduct by simply leaving their shambles untouched? Because they like it this way. She’d better go buy herself a new hat.” (The Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1955, p. 3) J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post, New York, 1998, p. 245, illustrated.

Creator:

George Hughes (1907 - 1990, American)

Creation Year:

1955

Dimensions:

Height: 29.25 in (74.3 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)

Medium:

Oil,Canvas

Period:

1950-1959

Condition:

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