What's New, Pussycat?

23” by 29”

by Frances Murphy

I always loved the graphics style of the early 1960's. It seemed to permeate, movies, magazines, billboards, fashion, furniture and decor. We were in the Atomic Age, we were in a cold war, we lived through the Cuban missile crisis, the possibility of nuclear war was very real, and we were dealing with segregation, racial cruelty, and race riots. The post-World War II world was quickly changing, and our popular culture was about to be blasted by the Vietnam war and the social revolution of the mid-1960's. The "innocent sophistication" of the early 1960's popular culture was about to disappear.