Cat Bookend, Drawing

Artist:Walter von Nessen

Medium: Pencil on paper

Geograhical Locations:

• United States

Dates:ca. 1930

Dimensions: Including frame: 24 x 17 in. (61 x 43.2 cm)

Collections:

• Decorative Arts and Design

Accession Number: 1994.156.3

Catalogue Description:
Drawing. Pencil. Tracing paper laid down on heavy buff board. Highly finished, abstracted profile view of standing aroused cat bookend. Body is inverted U-shape with thin tail rising vertically at proper right at circular head at proper left with conical ears and one round and one oval eye, all raised on narrow base. Horizontal line bisects cat through upper body and eyes.

Brooklyn Museum