Inscription
lower right in pen and black ink: WINSOR / MCCAY; upper edge in pen and black ink: Print the Pole and figures in Black key plate only / the rest in the blue key plate; lower edge in pen and black ink: Print [the word "Use," scratched out] the figures and north pole in Black key plate only-the rest in the Blue key plate; lower right in graphite: Page 1 comic Sec-March 3-; upper right edge in graphite on attached taped tab; SNOW MACHINE; upper right edge in blue colored pencil: MAR 3
Provenance
by descent to Ray Winsor Moniz (grandson of the artist); by descent to Margaret Ann Moniz and Ann Winsor Moniz, Highland Falls, NY; purchased by NGA, 2008
Exhibition History
- 2018
- Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.
Bibliography
- 1976
- O'Sullivan, Judith Roberts. The Art of Winsor Z. McCay (1971-1934). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1976, Vol. II, no. 876.
- 2000
- Winsor McCay, Little Nemo 1905-1914, introduction by Bill Blackbeard. Germany: Taschen, 2000, no. 81.
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