03504ckm a22005057a 4500 13914778 20250606214838.0 kd bo cr ||||||||||| 050329s1971 xx nnn kneng 13914778 p cbc orignew u ncip 20 y-printpho qw44 2005-03; qw30 2021-07r LCAP batch update 2025-06-01-04:00: LCAPM-861 2005680459 LC-DIG-ppmsca-03305 DLC (digital file from original drawing) DLC DLC gihc DLC Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] Price, George, 1901-1995, artist. [Housewife, wearing bunny cocktail outfit, greets husband with a drink as he enters the front door] [graphic] / Geo. Price. c1971 1 drawing : ink brush with watercolor and white out over graphite underdrawing ; 51.9 x 56.1 cm (sheet) still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia Digital image computer c rdamedia sheet nb rdacarrier Digital image online resource cr rdacarrier Title devised by Library staff. Caption label from exhibit Cartoon America: Increasing divorce rates, women's liberation, and society's emphasis on sexuality in the 1970s led many Americans to reconsider the institution of marriage. George Price uses his angular, almost cubist style to lampoon women going to great lengths to keep the spark in their relationships with men. In this gag cartoon, the unsuspecting husband walks through the door moments before his equally aged wife dressed in a Playboy bunny outfit and high heels surprises him. Price, a cartoonist with the New Yorker from 1932 to 1995, once said, "If the situation is funny enough it shouldn't require a line." Copyright 1971, New Yorker Magazine. Cartoon shows a middle aged and somewhat portly wife wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit and carrying a tray with a cocktail, ready to greet her staid-looking husband as he comes home from work. The immensely popular Playboy Clubs, founded by Hugh Hefner, featured shapely young waitresses wearing abbreviated costumes with white bunny tails, high heels, and bunny ears on their heads. Price, who cartooned for the New Yorker for more than 60 years, spoofs the literature published in the 1960s and 1970s advising women on how to re-establish romance in their marriages. Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress). Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007. Spouses 1950-1970. lctgm Marriage 1950-1970. lctgm Cartoons (Commentary) American 1950-1970. gmgpc Ink drawings American 1950-1970. gmgpc Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu digital file from original drawing ppmsca 03305 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03305 Unprocessed in WOOD/Price.43 On verso: copyright 1971, New Yorker Magazine. pp/exh L4610 #26 pp/cph c-P&P obj.