Ah-h, She Sails Like an Angel, 1921

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Medium

India ink and graphite with scraping on paperboard

Dimensions

sheet: 53.34 × 46.99 cm (21 × 18 1/2 in.)
image: 48.26 × 43.5 cm (19 × 17 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Garry Trudeau

Accession Number

2016.21.2

Artists / Makers

George Herriman (artist) American, 1880 - 1944

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Inscription

upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: D-12; center verso pasted down: one yellow engraving order (to Metropolitan Art Craft Co. from N.Y. American; dated September 11, 1921) and two pink "Rush" slips, all with graphite notations by unknown hand

Provenance

Garry Trudeau, New York; gift to NGA, 2016

Associated Names

Trudeau, Garry

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

1986: McDonnell, Patrick, Karen O'Connell, Georgia Riley de Havenon. Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman. New York, 1986, repr., 166.