Francisco Fonseca, Portuguese Illustrator, Neighbours washingHome Coming by Norman Rockwell 1945Martin Lewis, Tree, Manhattan, 1930T.S. SULLIVANTPascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (French, 1852 – 1929) Laundress, 1880Three Little (Fully Anthropomorphised) Kittens and Other Nursery Stories
August Macke (1887 – 1914) Laundry in the Garden, 1907London, a pilgrimage, Gustave Doré, 1869
from ‘A Modern Man — The Average Guy Pin-Up Calendar’
Joan of Arc by M.Boutet de MonvelIllustrator not found. Illustration of children is remininscent of E.H. Shepherd.Wash day, Bolton in 1937 by Humphrey Spender
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Lillian Hoban (1971)Margaret Bloy Graham for Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion (1957)Arthur Rutherston, Laundry Girls, 1906. The women are marking laundry with thread before it is sent out to be professionally cleaned.
American artist Maud Humphrey was born in 1868 and died in 1940. She started illustrating children’s books as a teenager in Rochester, New York. She specialised in illustrations of children.
By 1900 she was one of the highest-paid commercial illustrators in America. Clients included Ivory Soap, Elgin watches, and the publishers of the Mother Goose rhymes.
At age 30 she married a doctor, Belmont Deforest Bogart. You may recognise the name of their son, Humphrey Bogart.
Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair (1912) by John French Sloan (1871-1951)Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931) 1923 Illustration for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe The Man of the Crowd Barbara Cooney washing on the line on an island. There’s nothing like washing flapping to indicate wind.Edna Eicke (1919-1979) New Yorker Cover of washing on a line July 28 1956Wood block print by Brown County artist, Gustave Baumann, 1912 ‘November’. Illustration for “All The Year Round” by James Whitcomb Riley.‘Southwold, Suffolk’, Stanley Spencer, oil on canvas, 1937Look What I’ve Got By Anthony Browne, 1980Look What I’ve Got By Anthony Browne, 1980First Walk; ONE STEP, TWO . . . By Charlotte Zolotow. Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin 1955Edmund Blair Leighton – SeptemberEdward Wilkins Waite – A Surrey Cottage in JuneArthur Herbert Buckland – In a Cottage Garden 1910American Artist Illustrator John L Sloan 1912 A Womans Work NYC 1912 washingConte De Noel, Charles Dickens, illustrations by A.Pecoud (Paris 1952). In earlier times, before well-heated houses and the invention of dryers, it would have been common to hang washing to dry from the ceiling. We should probably see more of it in illustration.Charles Courtney Curran – Shadows
Hilda Boswell washing
Arthur Rackham (English,1867-1939) – Girl in shawl with Ducks
Poor Cecco by Marjery William Bianco illustrated by Arthur Rackham Mrs Woodchuck
Frozen Laundry Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 8, 1952 Giclee Print by Stevan Dohanos
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848 – 1933) A snowy Monday, 1926
THE HILLMAN’S HOIST OF AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand and Australian yards are well-known for the Hillman’s Hoist, a rotary clothesline which can be wound up and down.
from Harry and Hopper‘Bottomley Potts covered in spots by Lynley Dodd washing line
New Zealand painter Nigel Brown makes sure to include the Hillman’s Hoist in his depictions of suburban New Zealand.
Suburban Clothesline by Nigel Brown
Nigel Brown Clothesline Painting Number 5
Wash Day by N.C. Wyeth oil on canvas 1934English Woman July 12 1958, washing1909 Frank Pape, for Anatole France’s Penguin IslandGreat Grandmother Goose by Helen Cooper, illustrated by Krystyna Turska, Hamish Hamilton, London 1978
The City By FRANS MASEREEL (London 1988 – originally published by Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich 1925 as DIE STADT
V. Panov – The Snow Queen
Anatoli Michailovich Eliseev, Story of the stupid mouse frog washing
Tide washing powder, Woman and Home May 1958COUNTRY GENTLEMAN Magazine September 1947 washing ironing
When David Hockney's mother Laura first visited him in Beverly Hills, after two or three days out on the patio, she delivered her verdict on his lifestyle: “It’s strange – all this lovely weather and yet you never see any washing out.” pic.twitter.com/GAr2uQMRba
