GARTH WILLIAMS (1912 - 1996) Stuart Little washed overboard.
Ink and gouache on paper, circa 1945. 152x279 mm; 6x11 inches. Unsigned. Includes publishers notes outside of the margins showing reduction size and page number.
Provenance Acquired via a premier auction house in the year of the selling of the Garth Williams Estate.
Publication Published on page 40 of Stuart Little by E. B. White, Book Club Edition (New York: Harper & Row, 1945).
Image depicts Stuart being washed overboard from his Central Park Pond sailboat, the Wasp: "the wave came crashing and piling along the deck, caught Stuart up and swept him over the side and into the water, where everybody supposed he would drown."
