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Martta Wendelin's city women arrive in Erkkola 

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Martta Wendelin (1893–1986) is best known as an illustrator of idyllic domestic and rural scenes. However, in the 1920s and 1930s, she also depicted a completely different era and atmosphere: the hustle and bustle of cities and fashionable jazz girls. The Tuusula Art Museum's autumn exhibition, Silkkisukkia, polkkatukkia (Silk Stockings, Bobbed Hair), which opens on Wednesday 10 September, highlights this lesser-known phase in Wendelin's career, which depicted modern femininity and urban culture.

In the illustration, a woman is leaning casually against the back of a sofa with a cigarette in her hand.