Frontispiece for Where The Wind Blows
Date1902
Artist
Bertha Corson Day
American painter and illustrator, 1875–1968
Illustration CitationFrontispiece for Where the Wind Blows, by Katharine Pyle (New York: R. H. Russell, 1902)
MediumInk, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 19 1/8 × 12 3/4 in. (48.6 × 32.4 cm)
sheet: 23 3/4 × 18 in. (60.3 × 45.7 cm)
sheet: 23 3/4 × 18 in. (60.3 × 45.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1988
Object number1988-182
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextA Pyle student, Day had early success when her decorative designs were published in the "little magazine" Chap-Book in 1896 and 1897, and her poster design advertising Cashmere Bouquet products won second prize in a contest in 1897. In 1902, Day and Katharine Pyle collaborated on Where the Wind Blows, a book of folk and fairy tales from around the world.
