Book cover design for The Wolverine
Date1904
Artist
Bertha Corson Day
(American painter and illustrator, 1875–1968)
Illustration CitationUnpublished cover design for The Wolverine, by Albert Lathrop Lawrence (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1904)
MediumBlue, green, black and gold paint on cloth stretched over board, paper on reverse
Dimensions8 15/16 × 6 15/16 × 1/8 in. (22.7 × 17.6 × 0.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1982
Object number1982-50
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe publisher did not use this cover design study for The Wolverine: A Romance of Early Michigan. The artist's fellow Pyle student Arthur E. Becher won the commission with a more detailed and realistic composition.The BB monogram in the lower left refers to Corson Day's married name of Bertha Bates.
