Tailpiece for The Christmas Cuckoo
Date1916
Artist
Katharine Pyle
(American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration CitationGranny's Wonderful Chair and its Tales of Fairy Time, by Frances Browne (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916)
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (24.1 x 29.2 cm)
Credit LineFound in collection
Object number1900-43
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."
