Title Page for The Katharine Pyle Book of Fairy Tales
Date1925
Artist
Katharine Pyle
(American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration CitationThe Katharine Pyle Book of Fairy Tales, by Katharine Pyle (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1925)
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 11 1/8 × 7 1/8 in. (28.3 × 18.1 cm)
sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. Joseph Fraczkowski, 1972
Object number1972-55
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."
