Like a whirlwind she rushed away with him

Like a whirlwind she rushed away with him
Like a whirlwind she rushed away with him

Like a whirlwind she rushed away with him

Date1921
Artist (American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration Citation“The Baba Yaga: A Russian Fairy Tale,” in Wonder Tales Retold, by Katharine Pyle (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1921)
MediumInk and watercolor on paper mounted on board
Dimensionscomposition: 11 3/4 × 9 1/8 in. (29.8 × 23.2 cm)
sheet: 16 1/8 × 12 3/4 in. (41 × 32.4 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1938
Object number1938-126
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who travels in mortar while holding a pestle.

The 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."
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