Outside Were Trees - Birds and Sky
Ludwig Bemelmans
American Art
MEDIUM
Watercolor and ink on paper
DATES
1939
DIMENSIONS
sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 1/4 in. (49.1 x 36.2 cm)
SIGNATURE
Signed in ink, lower right: "Bemelmans"
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed in ink, bottom center: "outside were trees -- birds and sky -- / and ten [days] went quickly by --"
ACCESSION NUMBER
41.53
CREDIT LINE
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Ink outline sketch on verso, struck through with red pencil. Illustration for Ludwig Bemelmans, "Madeline" (1939)
MUSEUM LOCATION
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