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Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered: Images of Love from the Permanent Collection
On display in the third floor Hall of Fame Gallery
April 1 - July 31, 2009
"He kissed her very thoroughly. She grew dizzy. It was apparent he had only been kidding before."

The Big Kiss by Alex Ross from Camp Follower by Robert Carson
The Saturday Evening Post, November 27, 1943

A couple in a clinch. Illustrators have forever been called upon to represent that stirring moment when couples embrace. Or the trembling moments before. Or the sighing moments after.

In the early days of magazine illustration, when morals were tight and corsets tighter, flirtation may not have been overt, but in the pages of magazines such as Scribner's, the old Life, and Collier's Weekly lovers made their intentions clear with lowered eyes and behind fluttering fans.

Following the second World War, women's magazines like McCall's, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and The Ladies' Home Journal were filled with "boy/girl" stories aimed at suburban housewives and urban "career girls" looking for romance. With elegance and sly sexuality, artists expressed the promise of perfect love—or the delicious agony of tempestuous heartbreak.

Whether with lusty heat or cool sensuality, and whatever the tempo of the times, the illustrator has faithfully captured the unending variations of love.


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