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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
CultureAmerican
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
Exhibition History- Donkey-donkey, Petunia, and Other Pals: Drawings by Roger Duvoisin, 07/11/2015-06/26/2016, Zimmerli Art Museum, Duvoisin Gallery
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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
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Suddenly the little..., illustration from The Web in the Grass
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1972
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Roger Duvoisin
1972
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Book jacket illustration from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
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And somewhere... from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
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Around and around... from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
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Title page for The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
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Blossoms from the... from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972
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Now the small... from 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 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."
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1979
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The sun went down behind the hills, illustration from The Web in the Grass
Roger Duvoisin
1972