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Half a Pity
FES Title: Half a Pity
Alternate Titles: “It seemed half a pity….”
[1995]; “It Seems Half a Pity [2001, 2006]
Date: 03/24/1909
Size: 36″H x 24″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Phelps, Elizabeth. “The Chief Operator.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, July 1909: 307.
caption: It seemed half a pity to intrude upon her dream

Randolph-Macon College and Richard J. Kelly. Howard Pyle and His Students: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Ashland, VA: Randolph-Macon College, 1995: np. (catalog)
caption: “It seemed half a pity…”

Fauver, Chris. Stories to Tell: Masterworks from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. New York: Dahesh Museum of Art, 2006: 75.
(catalog)
caption: It Seemed Half a Pity

Inscription: ll: F.E. Schoonover / ’09
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1995 Kelly (catalog); 2001 FES; 2006 Kelly (catalog)
Comments: index; trany from owner; edit
Commentary:
Provenance: American Illustrators Gallery, New York; The Kelly Collection of American Illustration, Great Falls, Virginia
Current Owner: