Art of Rube Goldberg by Jennifer George
Author:Jennifer George
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams Publishing
The Weekly Meeting of
the Tuesday Ladies’ Club
OPPOSITE. The Weekly Meeting
of the Tuesday Ladies’ Club. Top
left: October 2, 1917. Top right:
November 13, 1918. Bottom
left: March 12, 1918. Bottom right:
August 20, 1918.
F
or years my parents’ den was hung with dozens
of Rube’s cartoons, matted and framed and
mounted close together, a mosaic of pen-and-ink that
covered the room like wallpaper—and which I largely
ignored. However, there was one cartoon on the wall that
every now and then I’d glance at, notice more carefully,
and admire. It depicted a group of fashionable women
outrageously plumed in fur and feathers, hats and heels,
and other than the strange contraption that seemed to be
churning out pretzels on the left side of the drawing, the
cartoon seemed completely out of character with what I’d
known of my grandfather’s work. Had I bothered to read
the fine print of the cartoon and its penciled caption at the
bottom, I would have been prepared for the treasure trove
of drawings I was to find in a long-forgotten portfolio in the
Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley
(my grandfather’s alma mater, and where the bulk of his
life’s work is stored).
The Weekly Meeting of the Tuesday Ladies’ Club, a
large single-panel cartoon that ran on Tuesdays from
May 1, 1917, to September 27, 1921, chronicles the activities
of New York City’s society ladies at the dawn of the
twentieth century. Imagine HBO’s Girls meets Gibson
Girls, as seen through the prism of my grandfather’s
sharp, satirical mind. It’s no accident that the Ladies’ Club
series was created at the beginning of Rube’s relationship
with Irma, when his observational eye was focused on
the opposite sex. And what followed was vintage Rube,
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