Tailpiece for The Cat that Winked
Date1918
Artist
Katharine Pyle
(American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration Citation“The Cat that Winked,” in Faery Tales of Weir by Anna McClure Sholl (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1918) [p. 122]
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 4 13/16 × 4 5/16 in. (12.2 × 11 cm)
sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (18.4 × 14.9 cm)
sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (18.4 × 14.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Sellers Bancroft, 1962
Object number1962-24
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."
