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Irene Fletcher

American
(1900–1969)

The Funnies
1940

Oil on masonite
21.625 x 27.75 x 1.25 in.
Museum Permanent Collection
1984.471

In 1940, when this work was painted, print media was still in its Golden Age. Roughly 41.1 million newspapers were being printed each day, in addition to the new illustrated magazines. Irene may have modeled the figures in this work after her own children, sharing a copy of the local Herald Journal.

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