Wee Willie Winkie's world. The first day Willie Winkie was at the sea side ... – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Wee Willie Winkie's world. The first day Willie Winkie was at the sea side ... in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wee Willie Winkie's world. The first day Willie Winkie was at the sea side ...
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This color page from the *Chicago Sunday Tribune* of December 2, 1906, follows Wee Willie Winkie on his first visit to the seaside, where a day at the beach opens onto ships and a child's imagination. It is one of the early strips by Lyonel Feininger, an American-born artist who drew for the Tribune's Sunday color supplement before he became known as a painter and, later, as a teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany. The fantasy settings and vivid color of these pages were typical of the Sunday comics of the period, which had only recently become a popular feature of American newspapers. The Library of Congress holds this print as a record of that work.
| Created / published | c1906. |
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| Medium | 1 print ; offset photoengraving. |
| Genre | Comics American 1900-1910.Prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | F46983, Nov. 10, 1906 Copyright Office Transfer ; Copyright Office. Published in: Chicago Sunday Tribune, Dec. 2, 1906. Exhibited in: Lyonel Feininger's Figurative Paintings, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2003-2004. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860408. |
| Subjects | Beaches--1900-1910. Children--1900-1910. Imagination--1900-1910. Ships--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,119 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172418 |
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