Helen E. Hokinson As Ceramic Potter

For me, Her Highness Helen E. Hokinson has been one of the greatest cartoonists ever....

often I see her seemingly obscure cartoon of almost 100 years ago and laugh incessantly....

here is another beautiful side of Ms. HEH....

 

 This playful ceramic was crafted by Helen Hokinson. Her cartoons humorously portrayed matronly suburban women facing the problems of modern life from a female point of view—a feminist stance which though humorous, often had serious undertones. Her ceramics were essentially three-dimensional extensions of these cartoons. 

This sculpture shows a rather stout woman paddling a small canoe that is aptly named “Butterball.” Neither her dress nor hat, much less her ample figure, stop her from partaking in this physical exercise. Originally this sculpture had as its companion an equally stout woman carrying a sign asking for the return of beer—a rather comic response to the deprivations of Prohibition.