"A Nickellette, or Unsophisticated Mary" manuscript and painting.

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"A Nickellette, or Unsophisticated Mary" manuscript and painting.

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Illustrated holograph manuscript entitled "A Nickellette (sic), or Unsophisticated Mary," by Beatrice Wood, 1917-1918. The manuscript relates a story of Mary, a romantic woman who encounters a series of surreal adventures in contemporary New York City, which includes references to the Woolworth building and cobblestone streets, in a quest to find her lover. Written with pencil in a notebook, the heavily illustrated manuscript has increasingly decorative text that graphically represents action in the story, in addition to ink and pencil drawings and watercolors that depict situations and characters. In an inscription by Wood in 1978 on the front flyleaf, "I wrote this when I was twenty - I am now ashamed at is adolescent crudity." The watercolor depicts the visage of the main character of the manuscript and had previously served as the cover for the notebook, August 1918.

1 v. (ca. 110 p.) (in 1 box) : ill. ; 21.0 cm.1 painting : watercolors on paper ; 16.1 x 12.5 cm.

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