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Helen Hokinson

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Helen Elna Hokinson (1893 - 1949) was active/lived in New York, District Of Columbia, Illinois.  Helen Hokinson is known for Illustrator-cartoonist.

Best known as an illustrator of satirical covers and cartoons for the "New Yorker" magazine, she was known for her themes of the bemused older woman who found herself out-of-step with the times.

She was raised in a comfortable middle class environment in Mendota, Illinois. In high school, she did numerous caricatures of classmates and teachers and then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where she studied cartooning and illustrating for five years.

She also worked as a fashion-design sketcher and then moved to New York City where she did freelance fashion illustrating. But her interests turned to social issues including the circumstances of laboring people, and in 1925, she sent sketches to "New Yorker" editor Harold Ross. He began publishing her cartoons that year, and from that time her reputation was assured. She also worked for the "Ladies Home Journal."

She died at age fifty six in 1949 in a plane that crashed into the Washington DC National Airport. Sh   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1047 characters.]  Artist bio

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13 Book References for Helen Hokinson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Lorenz, Lee The Art of the New Yorker 1925-1995 200 Yes
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1994 Lent, John A Animation, Caricature...Cartoons in the U S A and Canada/A Bibliography 415 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1975 Peppe, Carmine (Layout) The New Yorker Album of Drawings, 1925-1975 200 No
1959 Becker, Stephen Comic Art in America 387 No
1938 Bolton, Theodore American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists 290 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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