Little Figure With Big Wings
c. 1935-1943
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lithograph
Dimensions
image: 260 x 177 mm sheet: 318 x 240 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.4570
Art Historical Context
**Little Figure With Big Wings** a charming lithograph by American artist Maybelle Stamper, created circa 1935–1943. Measuring 260 x 177 mm on a sheet of 318 x 240 mm, this intimate print captures a whimsical scene suggested by its evocative title—a diminutive figure adorned with outsized wings, evoking of imagination and flight. Housed in the National Gallery Art's Department of Modern Prints and Drawings (CG-W), entered the collection as a gift from Reba and Dave Williams, renowned collectors of American graphic arts. Lithography, the medium here, was a revolutionary planographic technique ...