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"Toward sunset they found an island and Professor Cook baked a big trout over a campfire," Illustration design for Nic of the Woods
"Toward sunset they found an island and Professor Cook baked a big trout over a campfire," Illustration design for Nic of the Woods
"Toward sunset they found an island and Professor Cook baked a big trout over a campfire," Illustration design for Nic of the Woods

"Toward sunset they found an island and Professor Cook baked a big trout over a campfire," Illustration design for Nic of the Woods

Artist Lynd Ward (American, 1905-1985)
Author Lynd Ward (American, 1905-1985)
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston, Massachusetts, founded 1880)
Datec. 1965
CultureAmerican
MediumGouache heightened with white on illustration board
DimensionsImage: 41 x 30.1 cm (16 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.) Sheet (board): 43.9 x 33 cm (17 5/16 x 13 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineTransfer from Rutgers University Libraries
Object number85.005.012.003
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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“The next day when they went in swimming, Davey dove head-first off the springboard,” Illustration design for Nic of the Woods
Lynd Ward
c. 1965
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Campfire
George Overbury "Pop" Hart
1924
Campfire
Campfire
George Overbury "Pop" Hart
1924
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Campfire
George Overbury "Pop" Hart
1924
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Campfire
George Overbury "Pop" Hart
1924
Boats and Natives
Boats and Natives
George Overbury "Pop" Hart
1924
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Boats and Natives
George Overbury "Pop" Hart
1924
Boats and Natives
Boats and Natives
George Overbury "Pop" Hart
1924
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"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
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
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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
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
"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
"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
Lynd Ward
c. 1962
Study for Sunday Picnic on the Hudson
Study for Sunday Picnic on the Hudson
George Overbury "Pop" Hart
1921