Easter Puck

Puck struts through a spring wood in the scarlet doublet and plumed hat of a musketeer, flanked by two upright white rabbits, each cradling a painted egg. In the foreground a tonsured monk squints into a small book, oblivious, while a third rabbit bounds off through the grass behind. Louis Glackens keeps the ground a wash of fresh yellow-green and lets the sprite's red costume carry the eye. EASTER and PUCK are drawn tall and open across the top. The pairing of friar and fairy, piety and mischief, is the kind of light irreligion the magazine could risk on a holiday number. Glackens, who would later work in animation, already thinks in movement here; every figure is caught mid-stride.