Magazine illustration by Al Parker for fiction story "Love Can Be a Problem" by Faith Baldwin, Good Housekeeping, May 1940

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Parker, Alfred Charles. 1939. Magazine Illustration by Al Parker for Fiction Story "Love Can Be a Problem" by Faith Baldwin, Good Housekeeping, May 1940. Gouache (technique). Dowd Illustration Research Archive. Good Housekeeping, Domesticated Pulp: Archie Publications and the Comics Code, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/domesticated-pulp-archie/item/48303

Descriptive Title: Magazine illustration by Al Parker for fiction story "Love Can Be a Problem" by Faith Baldwin, Good Housekeeping, May 1940
Creator: See all items with this value Parker, Alfred Charles
Item Description: The moment before a confrontation between two men at a dinner party. The man with his back to the viewer holds a bottle menacingly behind his back, and grips the hand of a woman sitting at one of the tables. The background is a jungle mural.
Publisher: Good Housekeeping
Date: 1940
Volume/Issue: vol.119 no.5
Repository: Dowd Illustration Research Archive
Collection: Al Parker Collection
Archival Record: Series 7: Original Works of Art on Board, Box 70, Item 2
Format: See all items with this value watercolors (paintings)
Medium: See all items with this value gouache (technique)
Subject: See all items with this value commercial art; See all items with this value illustration (process)
Rights: IN COPYRIGHT

Item sets: Domesticated Pulp: Archie Publications and the Comics Code

Site pages: It’s a Jungle Out There

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