happy New Year 1867,happy New Year 1917,Rea Irvin,1916

Title: A happy New Year 1867 - a happy New Year 1917 / Rea Irvin.
Creator(s): Irvin, Rea, 1881-1972, artist
Date Created/Published: 1916 Nov. 17.
Summary: Two-panel cartoon. The 1867 panel shows a proper Victorian family -- father, mother, and little girl -- in their parlor, taking tea. The 1917 panel shows a riotous party in a restaurant with champagne corks popping, a man dancing on the table, two men playing leapfrog, and a heavy lady in a strapless dress drinking champagne. Irwin was a popular contributor of cartoons to Life (the humor magazine) before being named art editor of the New Yorker in 1925.
Notes:
Title from Life, (1917 January 4), p. 8-9.
Published in: Life (New York : 1883-1936), January 4, 1917, p. 8-9.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Title on verso: A happy New Year 1887. A happy New Year 1917.
Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
Unprocessed in WOOD/Irvin.254
Sources: Life, Jan. 4, 1917, p. 8-9; World encyclopedia of cartoons, p. 317 ljr
Date from verso.
Subjects:
Families--United States--1860-1870.
Domestic life--United States--1860-1870.
Parties--United States--1910-1920.
New Year--1860-1920.
Cartoons (Commentary)--American--1910-1920.
Drawings--American--1910-1920.
Bookmark /2004672688/
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