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Nude Girl Epiphany, Playboy Cartoon - Women's Liberation Moment

Creator: Richard Lippincott Denison Taylor - Playboy Magazine
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Richard Taylor is one of the great Cartoonists. He is celebrated for his dry sense of humor and skill in depicting people in subtle narratives. His instantly recognizable style is expressed with his wide-eyed and heavy, lidded-eyed subjects. The present work, " I think my analysis is beginning to work. I don't hate myself this morning," is a cartoon about and for women in a men's magazine. It is not a traditional run-of-the-mill male chauvinist fantasy cartoon. It makes a sexual and social statement that addresses the emerging Women's Liberation movement of the late 1960s, making it historically important. Then again, it is a cartoon in a sex magazine. The secondary joke/ punchline is the guy's reaction. While the girl has a liberating epiphany, joyfully thrusting both arms in the air - the guy, oblivious to her moment, is transfixed on her ample bust. Signed upper left. R. Taylor. The work is elegantly framed under glass to a dimension of 21 x 17. Provenance: Playboy Archives

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Pen, ink, watercolor and gouache on illustration board
Condition:	Excellent
Creation Date:	1969
Styles / Movements:	Conceptualism, Modernism, Illustration
Incollect Reference #:	767547

Dimensions

W.	9 in;	H.	11.75 in;
W.	22.86 cm;	H.	29.85 cm;

Message from Seller:

You'll find an eclectic group of art works at Robert Funk Fine Art. 45 years of experience has shaped Director Robert Funk's multi-perspective approach to presenting art. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with great teachers such as first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish. In Graduate School he worked with famed critic E.C. Goossen and went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director, and Art Collector.