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Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle
(American, 1876 - 1936)
The Immigrants
Alternate Title(s)
- caption reads "Standing by himself, looking over the rail."
1899
29 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (74.3 × 54 cm)
83.8
Purchased with the Museum Volunteers’ Fund, 1983
On view
Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle created this illustration for Paul Leicester Ford’s novel Janice Meredith: A Story of the Revolution before she married Howard Pyle’s brother Walter. Like many women artists of the era, Ellen Pyle put her career on hold during her marriage. She returned to illustration after her husband’s death in 1919, supporting her family with her popular covers for the Saturday Evening Post featuring flappers—a generation of modern, fashionable, and intelligent young women with short hair and rising hemlines.
