Franklin Folger Female Portrait Study Etchings and Drypoints, Circa 1970

Item Details

Franklin Lewis Folger (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1919 – 2007)
Beautiful Day; Chapeau; Gigi; Julie; Miss M; Siren; Sleep; The Red Parasol; and more, circa 1970
Nine etchings on paper; two drypoints on paper
Signed to the lower right margin
Artist proof
Title inscribed to the lower center margin
Artist’s stamp to the verso

Franklin Lewis Folger was a Cincinnati artist known for his widely syndicated comic strip The Girls, which ran in hundreds of newspapers from 1952 – 1977. In the series, Folger created caricatures of “the ladies who lunch”, the housewives and society ladies who populated the American middle and upper classes of the time. His treatment of his female characters was gentle but humorous, as they often found themselves in everyday but quite ridiculous circumstances. His light-hearted yet clever approach resonated with readers, especially women, launching the cartoon’s success and syndication across the country and worldwide. The series was additionally compiled into seven books by Doubleday and its followers included such notables as Eleanor Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Condition

- small creases and toning to margins of The Red Parasol sheet, as well as a tear to the lower right corner; toning, lightly scattered foxing, and slight handling wear to print and paper of all artworks.

Dimensions

- measures sheet of The Red Parasol.

Item #

ITMGH51742