The Card Castle
Date1892
Artist
Katharine Pyle
(American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration Citation"Toy Verses," by Katharine Pyle, in St. Nicholas, February 1892
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 8 1/4 × 5 9/16 in. (21 × 14.1 cm)
sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 15/16 in. (37.9 × 30.3 cm)
sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 15/16 in. (37.9 × 30.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse
Object number1900-101
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."
