Worried Couple
Artist
M. Coburn "Coby" Whitmore
(American, 1913 - 1988)
Date1916
MediumTempera on canvas board
Dimensions13 1/2 x 21 in.
ClassificationsTempera
Credit LineGift of the artist
Terms
Object number1967.18LIC
DescriptionMany love stories of the 1940s reflect the events or aftermath of World War II. Christine Weston's novel, published first as a magazine serial, examined the effect of the war on two marriages. Stella's husband dies in battle. She and Mark, a returning war hero, later fall in love. Mark's vain, self-centered wife, Regan, announces she wants a divorce on the day of Mark's homecoming. Regan wants to marry the equally vain and self-centered Bill. In Whitmore's illustration, one of six in all, Regan and Bill are having a lunch meeting with their lawyer to discuss possible divorce strategies, since Mark refuses to divorce her. The beautiful Regan, exquisite in her fashionable dark hat and gloves, is actually talking not to Bill but to the lawyer seated opposite her. Looking particularly weak and selfish, Bill glances up furtively. The illustration was printed in full color across two pages, the nebulous area at left covered by a block of text.On View
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