Little Nemo in Slumberland: Climbing the Great North Pole, 1907

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series Title

Little Nemo in Slumberland

Medium

pen and black ink and brush and black ink over graphite on paperboard

Dimensions

image: 70.49 x 54.61 cm (27 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.)

sheet: 72.71 x 57.15 cm (28 5/8 x 22 1/2 in.)
top section: 36.83 x 57.15 cm (14 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)
bottom section: 35.88 x 57.15 cm (14 1/8 x 22 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Richard S. Zeisler Fund

Accession Number

2009.28.2

Artists / Makers

Winsor McCay (artist) American, 1869(?) - 1934

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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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

Associated Names

Moniz, Margaret Ann

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.