Shelly hissed again and crawled between his legs
Date1929
Artist
Henrietta McCaig Starrett
(American illustrator, 1893–1963)
Illustration Citation"Hexensabbath," by Thomas Beer, in The Saturday Evening Post, September 7, 1929
MediumCrayon and watercolor on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 11 7/8 × 16 in. (30.2 × 40.6 cm)
sheet: 15 13/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.2 × 50.6 cm)
sheet: 15 13/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.2 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineJohn Sloan Purchase Fund, 1981
Object number1981-64
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe title Hexensabbath (witches' Sabbath) conveys the mysterious tone of this story of rural characters who spy an unknown man and his black dog in the woods near their home. After much suspicion, their fears are allayed when there is a simple answer to the mystery. Here, the onlooker's cat (with him at right) hisses upon seeing a dog and its ghostly owner.
Henrietta McCaig Starrett
1930
Henrietta Adams McClure
1928
