Roberta MacDonald

Born: 1917, United States
Died: 1999
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA

The following is republished from the Library of Congress. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).

Unlike many cartoonists at that time, she depicted women in the military and other jobs. With witty humor, she poked fun at her own gender’s preoccupation with appearance, gender relations, and high-handed personalities, publishing more than one hundred cartoons in the New Yorker from 1940–1952. As the magazine selected less and less of her work, she turned increasingly to book illustration.

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