Each one wanted to get the flitch from him

Each one wanted to get the flitch from him
Each one wanted to get the flitch from him

Each one wanted to get the flitch from him

Date1925
Artist (American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration Citation"Why the Sea is Salt," in The Katharine Pyle Book of Fairy Tales, by Katharine Pyle (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1925)
MediumGraphite and ink on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)
sheet: 14 1/4 × 11 5/8 in. (36.2 × 29.5 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1938
Object number1938-127
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."
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