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Illustration design for The Web in the Grass: "Her legs were long and slender...she began to make a web."
Illustration design for The Web in the Grass: "Her legs were long and slender...she began to make a web."
Illustration design for The Web in the Grass: "Her legs were long and slender...she began to make a web."

Illustration design for The Web in the Grass: "Her legs were long and slender...she began to make a web."

Artist Roger Duvoisin (American, born in Switzerland, 1900-1980)
Author Berniece Freschet (American, active 20th century)
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons (American, founded 1846)
Date1972
MediumGouache, pen and black ink, paper collage and string collage on paper mounted to illustration board
DimensionsImage: 26.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.4 x 20.8 cm (10 3/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Mount: 29.1 x 22.2 cm (11 7/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineGift of Louise Fatio Duvoisin
Object number85.014.005.04
Collections
Exhibition History- Donkey-donkey, Petunia, and Other Pals: Drawings by Roger Duvoisin, 07/11/2015-06/26/2016, Zimmerli Art Museum, Duvoisin Gallery
Exhibitions

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Illustration design for The Web in the Grass:"That night...a moth few into her tangle of threads....The sun came up and...tiny dewdrops hung there, sparkling..."
Illustration design for The Web in the Grass:"That night...a moth few into her tangle of threads....The sun came up and...tiny dewdrops hung there, sparkling..."
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Image Not Available for Suddenly the little..., illustration from The Web in the Grass
Suddenly the little..., illustration from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Image Not Available for Book jacket illustration from The Web in the Grass
Book jacket illustration from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Image Not Available for A fat toad... from The Web in the Grass
A fat toad... from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Image Not Available for Around and around... from The Web in the Grass
Around and around... from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Image Not Available for And somewhere... from The Web in the Grass
And somewhere... from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Image Not Available for Title page for The Web in the Grass
Title page for The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
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Copyright page for The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Image Not Available for Now the small... from The Web in the Grass
Now the small... from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Image Not Available for Blossoms from the... from The Web in the Grass
Blossoms from the... from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
Karl Marx in a Spider's Web
Karl Marx in a Spider's Web
Shai-Ziia (Ziiakhan Shaigeldinov)
c. 1987
Image Not Available for Illustration design for Snowy and Woody, pages 28-29: "The snow makes Snowy long for his Arctic ice pack. And it makes Woody remember the warm cave where he spends winter."
Illustration design for Snowy and Woody, pages 28-29: "The snow makes Snowy long for his Arctic ice pack. And it makes Woody remember the warm cave where he spends winter."
Roger Duvoisin
1979