The Noah's Ark

The Noah's Ark
The Noah's Ark

The Noah's Ark

Date1891
Artist (American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration Citation"The Noah's Ark," by Katharine Pyle, in St. Nicholas, December 1891
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 9 × 6 in. (22.9 × 15.2 cm)
sheet: 15 × 11 15/16 in. (38.1 × 30.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse
Object number1900-95
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
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."