Your entrance here has been most difficult for me

Your entrance here has been most difficult for me
Your entrance here has been most difficult for me

Your entrance here has been most difficult for me

Date1917
Artist (American illustrator, 1873–1949)
Illustration CitationCecilia of the Pink Roses by Katharine Haviland Taylor (Curtis Publishing, 1917)
MediumGraphite, watercolor, gouache, ink, and crayon on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 15 5/8 × 11 1/4 in. (39.7 × 28.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-123
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAlthough the place of publication for this illustration is not identified, the artist's notes indicate that it represents a well-off woman chastising a young girl for behavior "suitable for one of the maids."

May Wilson Preston attended the Art Students League in New York from 1892 through 1897 but left when, as a woman, she was not allowed to attend life drawing classes, an experience that led to her activity in the struggle for women's rights. An illustrator for many major magazines, she was one of the few early female associate members of the Society of Illustrators in New York. Women were not admitted to full membership until the 1920s.
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