“I don’t believe I’ll stay here.”
Date1917
Artist
Katharine Pyle
(American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration CitationTwo Little Mice, and Others by Katharine Pyle (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co. 1917)
MediumInk and graphite on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 5 15/16 × 6 in. (15.1 × 15.2 cm)
sheet: 6 1/8 × 6 1/8 in. (15.6 × 15.6 cm)
sheet: 6 1/8 × 6 1/8 in. (15.6 × 15.6 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1938
Object number1938-135
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe youngest child of the Pyle family, Katharine was prolific as both author and illustrator. At the turn of the twentieth century, many considered art an appropriate extension of women's "natural" talent for beautifying their surroundings, but there was still resistance to women as professional artists. The artist and illustrator Joseph Pennell offered Katharine Pyle as an example of why there was "no earthly reason why women should not be illustrators."
