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KEWPIE VARIATIONS (144) / 2001
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Prints on canvas: Still Lifes / Landscapes | | Medium: | print on canvas | | Size (inches): | 26 x 20 (image size) | | Size (mm): | 660 x 508 (image size) | | Catalog #: | PC_051 | | Description: | From an edition of 25.Signed, titled, date, copyright, edition in magic ink on the reverse /Aside from the numbered edition of 5 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs.
Thank heavens for the Oxford English Dictionary, eh? I doubt that defining "kewpie dolls" was exactly what Sir James Murray had in mind when he began compiling his dictionary, but the Second Edition delivers the goods on "kewpie doll" with deadpan good humor: "A chubby doll with a curl or topknot on its head." According to John Ciardi's "Good Words to You," kewpie dolls originally also had wings, and, during one period in early 20th century America, were as wildly popular as teddy bears. The kewpie doll was the invention of a commercial illustrator named Rose O'Neill, whose work, notes Ciardi, "was given to flowing designs of winged, glowing, innocent creatures." The name "kewpie" was, as you may suspect by now, a modification of "Cupid."
-The Word Detective
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