Portrait of Child with Toy
Datenot dated
Artist
Katharine Pyle
(American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 x 19 in. (76.2 x 48.3 cm)
frame: 34 × 23 in. (86.4 × 58.4 cm)
frame: 34 × 23 in. (86.4 × 58.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Georgina M. Bissell, 2001
Object number2001-14
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
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."
