Father mouse came staggering back carrying a little white mouse in his arms
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)
MediumGraphite and ink on paper
Dimensionssheet: 6 9/16 × 7 9/16 in. (16.7 × 19.2 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1938
Object number1938-129
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."
Louis John Rhead
1921
