Name that mood!
Deadline
Lucia Larner, Chicago, USA
Gouache on board, circa 1950s
illustration and text below ©Swann Auction Galleries
Larner was the only female artist at Stephens, Biondi, & Decicco, Chicago’s premier commercial art studio in the 1950s. For the city at the center of modern American consumerism, her background as a fashion artist set her visual style apart from her colleagues and she was one of the most in-demand artists for the agency. Lucia’s most iconic contribution to the commercial art world was the 1956 redesign of the Morton Salt girl.
My boyfriend is more important than what I wear here!
On the coat rack–is that his tie?
I’m not sure. It could also be a sock or a scarf, suspenders or a very thin coat? It might not belong to either of them.
I made up the caption because I could see either of them saying that about a deadline, haha.