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George HughesMessy Room, Neat Boys: Post Cover1955
1955
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)
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- Gallery Location:Fort Washington, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38436301702
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