Woman reading on sofa
Date1914
Artist
Gertrude Alice Kay
(American painter and illustrator, 1884–1939)
Illustration Citation"In the Footsteps of the Great," by Helen Christine Bennett, in Pictorial Review, March 1914
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 13 7/16 × 21 in. (34.1 × 53.3 cm)
sheet: 14 × 21 1/2 in. (35.6 × 54.6 cm)
sheet: 14 × 21 1/2 in. (35.6 × 54.6 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1988
Object number1988-142
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextGertrude Kay was adept with both color and black and white media. A world traveler, she illustrated many articles about her journeys, as well as numerous magazine stories. In this humorous short fiction, a husband discovers that books are one of his new wife's "eccentricities."
Alice Barber Stephens
1905
Bertha Corson Day
not dated
