After Walter Inglis Anderson
(American/Mississippi, 1903-1965)
"Cinderella on Her Way to the Ball"
"The Frog Prince #1"
two hand-colored linocuts
Each glazed and framed.
sight 77" x 16-1/2", framed 79-1/2" x 19", and sight 71-1/2" x 19", framed 75" x 22" respectively
Provenance: Private collection, New Orleans, Louisiana.

By the mid-1940s, Walter Anderson was creating a series of woodblock prints based on fairy tales and folk stories. ìThe Frog Prince #1î draws on a German folk tale published in 1812 in Grimm's Fairy Tales. The print ìCinderella on Her Way to the Ballî was based on a folk tale that included thousands of versions that spread throughout the world.

Illustrated: Pickard, Mary Anderson and Patricia Pinson, eds. Form and Fantasy: The Block Prints of Walter Anderson, (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007), pp. 37, 88 and 90.

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