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Image Not Available for "As Mark picked up the bird to look at it, Laird and his second came out of the gulch," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
"As Mark picked up the bird to look at it, Laird and his second came out of the gulch," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
Image Not Available for "As Mark picked up the bird to look at it, Laird and his second came out of the gulch," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain

"As Mark picked up the bird to look at it, Laird and his second came out of the gulch," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain

Artist Lynd Ward (American, 1905-1985)
Author May McNeer (American, 1902 - 1994)
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston, Massachusetts, founded 1880)
Datec. 1962
CultureAmerican
MediumGray gouache heightened with white and graphite on illustration board
DimensionsImage: 13.5 x 30.5 cm (5 5/16 x 12 in.) Sheet (board): 17.8 x 35.6 cm (7 x 14 in.) Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineTransfer from Rutgers University Libraries
Object number85.005.010.003
Exhibition History- Lynd Ward Draws Stories: Inspired by Mexico's History, Mark Twain, and Adventures in the Woods, 07/07/2012-08/30/2013, Zimmerli Art Museum, Duvoisin Gallery
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Image Not Available for "After the first lesson the teacher said, 'Mr Clemens, you can fall off a bicycle more ways than the man who invented it!'," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
"After the first lesson the teacher said, 'Mr Clemens, you can fall off a bicycle more ways than the man who invented it!'," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
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"Next day the editor charged into the Journal office like a rampaging buffalo, ready to tear his rival editor apart," Illustration design for America's Mark Twain
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“Other nights Sammy lingered by the wide fireplace listening to the moaning sound of his aunt’s spinning wheel, or he joined the many children gathered in the kitchen. Negroes sat there telling fearsome stories of Old Raw Head and Bloody Bones—or the tale of the ‘Golden Arm’.”
Illustration design for America’s Mark Twain
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Mark Twain Being Photographed, illustration design for America's Mark Twain (Chapter 8)
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c. 1962
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