The Red Swan

The Red Swan
The Red Swan

The Red Swan

Date1902
Artist (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)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1988
Object number1988-176
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
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.
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