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Illustration Art, Frog and Bumblebee, Joanne Chapman, Vintage Watercolor (Sold)

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Joanne Chapman
The Frog and the Bumblebee
American: 1949
Watercolor and gouache on illustration board
Artist’s name lower right, and dated May 17, 1949
15 x 20 inches, overall
11 x 17 inches, image

A frog sits in a garden at the base of a white fence, eyeing a bee hovering nearby. The illustration is labeled “Illus. IIB”; it was probably part of a set of illustrations for a children’s book or magazine, perhaps also illustrating a song. Pencil notation lower right, presumably in artist’s hand: Joanne Chapman, Illus. IIB, May 17, ’49

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20th Century