Our lady of telephones

Image: Goddess of phone calls, from x-ray_delta_one's photostream. Artist: Alonzo Earl Foringer (American, 1878-1948) an illustrator based in New Jersey.

A quick Google reveals that this piece was known as (or was part of) "The Industry Series," an oil on board illustration (24" x 36") which was at one point owned by the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Who could she have been talking to? I have one idea.

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- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Hmm.
http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

WOW~! What an illustration!
- Preston Sturges
  
  Typically this was the sort of thing you’d see at the top of a big old stock certificate. I guess the Treasury Department quality engraving was to prevent counterfeiting.
  
  This one is tame – a lot of them featured the conceit of bare-boobed-blondes-as-classical-art themes.
Brainspore

Unfortunately the patron goddess of the internet is totally NSFW.
Editz

Based on that thousand yard stare, I’d say she’s on hold.
- Preston Sturges
  
  I’m not sure how that scroll is staying her lap, because she is clearly sitting in a gale force wind.
DevinC

Watson, come here. I need you.
pjcamp

Our Lady of Perpetual Gossip?

Our Lady of the Tubes?

Saint Lily of Information? Just one moment please, Mr. FuhBuckley.
http://redesigned.com redesigned

Ma Bell is that you?
diginferno

So that’s why so many people use their phones at inappropriate times: their religion demands it! ;-)

On a serious note, awesome painting!
ChickieD

Direct line.
http://twitter.com/ErnestValdemar Ernest Valdemar

This is probably as good a place as any to link to one of my favorite one-act SFF/H plays, Andre de Lorde’s 1902 Au telephone (“At the Telephone”), written for the original Theatre du Grand Guignol.

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/atteleph.htm
Francisco Vila

And this is Her temple: Palacio de las Comunicaciones (Madrid) https://www.google.es/search?q=temple&hl=es&client=ubuntu&hs=otF&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=wbI5UduvEqfR7AbR3YGACg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=640#hl=es&client=ubuntu&hs=SEv&channel=fs&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=palacio+comunicaciones+madrid&oq=palacio+comun&gs_l=img.3.0.0l2j0i24l2.7777.10681.0.13084.13.9.0.2.2.1.202.1144.2j6j1.9.0…0.0…1c.1.5.img.74f5FG3nCM8&fp=1&biw=1440&bih=640&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&cad=b&sei=GsY5Ucm0CILcyQGVhoDADg