Puck Christmas 1903
In a dining room, a man sits at a table eating, a woman has opened a door, and three men stand in the doorway, singing Christmas carols.
Comments and Context
Puck‘s Louis M Glackens, increasingly its assigned cartoonist specializing in holiday covers and poster-like illustrations, manages a little subtle humor in this otherwise ubiquitous festive scene. The Christmas carolers are thin and at least one of them casts a hungry eye on the Christmas dinner. In the warm house, a portly man sits by a glowing fireplace about to dine, alone, and the setting sun in the background indicates that dinner time approaches… perhaps not for the carolers.
