"Sell a picture of a cow!"
Date1889
Artist
George Wharton Edwards
(American painter, illustrator, and engraver, 1859–1950)
Illustration Citation"Jufrow Van Steen," by Anna Eichberg King, in The Century Magazine, September 1889
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John Egan, 1979
Object number1979-190
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextGeorge Wharton Edwards' comic figure laughs at the suggestion that anyone would buy a painting of a cow in this story about Holland. A Connecticut native, Edwards was a painter, illustrator, writer, and lithographic artist. After his studies in Antwerp and Paris, he gained recognition in the 1890s, especially for the Art Nouveau style of his posters.
