The children sat down at the table, and the water-sprite set before them a dish of dumplings...
Date1918
Artist
Katharine Pyle
(American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration CitationMother’s Nursery Tales, by Katharine Pyle (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1918)
MediumGouache, paint, and graphite on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 12 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (31.4 × 23.5 cm)
sheet: 16 5/8 × 13 1/4 in. (42.2 × 33.7 cm)
sheet: 16 5/8 × 13 1/4 in. (42.2 × 33.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Georgina M. Bissell, 2001
Object number2001-13
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe youngest child of the Pyle family, Katharine was prolific as both author and illustrator. At the turn of the twentieth century, many considered art an appropriate extension of women's "natural" talent for beautifying their surroundings, but there was still resistance to women as professional artists. The artist and illustrator Joseph Pennell offered Katharine Pyle as an example of why there was "no earthly reason why women should not be illustrators."
