The Old Tin Sheep

The Old Tin Sheep
The Old Tin Sheep

The Old Tin Sheep

Date1897
Artist (American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration Citation"The Old Tin Sheep," by Katharine Pyle, in St. Nicholas, July 1897
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 6 1/4 × 7 9/16 in. (15.9 × 19.2 cm)
sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (24.1 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse
Object number1900-98
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
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."