Dust Jacket

Dust Jacket
Dust Jacket

Dust Jacket

Date1920
Artist (American painter, 1887–1957)
Illustration CitationThe Door of the Double Dragon, a Romance of the China of Yesterday and To-Day, by Hector Blanding (New York: W.J. Watt and Co., 1920)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions29 1/4 × 19 5/8 in. (74.3 × 49.8 cm)
frame: 33 1/4 × 23 5/8 in. (84.5 × 60 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1977
Object number1977-237
On View
On view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextGeorge Gage’s cover sets the mood for this novel about China—still an exotic locale for most American readers in 1920. The central character is a young American woman who goes to China to paint a portrait of the emperor. Gage combines colorful and ornate doors with a shadowy space beyond, suggesting both the pleasures and the uncertainties of the artist’s experience.

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