The Red Swan
Date1902
Artist
Bertha Corson Day
American painter and illustrator, 1875–1968
Illustration Citation"The Red Swan," in Where the Wind Blows, by Katharine Pyle (New York: R.H. Russell, 1902)
MediumInk, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 18 × 12 3/4 in. (45.7 × 32.4 cm)
sheet: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
sheet: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1988
Object number1988-176
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this tale from Katharine Pyle's compendium of international folk tales Where the Wind Blows, a Native American youth assumes the form of a hawk and returns a magic cap to an elder.
