{"id":372,"date":"2008-01-31T23:34:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T06:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/a-lulu-of-an-exhibit\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T23:34:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T06:34:33","slug":"a-lulu-of-an-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/a-lulu-of-an-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lulu of an Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<table Align=left>\n<td><img src='http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/radcliffelulu.jpg' alt='radcliffelulu.jpg' hspace=\"5\" \/><\/td>\n<\/table>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any specific plans to get to Boston between now and March 29th&#8211;but if I do make my way there, I&#8217;ll sure make time for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radcliffe.edu\/schles\/exhibits\/lulu\/index.php\">Little Lulu show at Harvard&#8217;s Radcliffe Institute<\/a>. Radcliffe has the papers of Marge, Lulu&#8217;s talented creator, and the exhibit features some of her forgotten non-Lulu work, too. (I&#8217;m especially pleased to hear that; before Marge came up with Lulu, she was a sort of distaff John Held Jr., doing some wonderful prose-and-cartoons pieces about young women and their beaus.)<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t taking anything away from Marge to point out that the writeup of the exhibit on the Radcliffe site&#8217;s claim that she was &#8220;the first woman cartoonist to achieve worldwide fame as well as commercial success&#8221; gives short shrift to a number of female artists, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/d\/drayton_g.htm\">Grace Drayton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ortakales.com\/illustrators\/Oneill.html\">Rose O&#8217;Neill<\/a>,  and <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/p\/parker_gladys.htm\">Gladys Parker<\/a>. All of who I&#8217;d like to see get museum shows of their own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have any specific plans to get to Boston between now and March 29th&#8211;but if I do make my way there, I&#8217;ll sure make time for the Little Lulu show at Harvard&#8217;s Radcliffe Institute. Radcliffe has the papers of Marge, Lulu&#8217;s talented creator, and the exhibit features some of her forgotten non-Lulu work, too. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/a-lulu-of-an-exhibit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Lulu of an Exhibit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[166,167,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-little-lulu","category-marge","category-radcliffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}