Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Pollen Lovers on the Spider’s Web
Two small figures lean together where a great web stretches between hanging plants. Flowers, seed-like forms and thin threads make the meeting place both intricate and precarious. The text identifies them as pollen lovers whose encounter leads to another life of leaf and bloom.
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Dugald Stewart Walker. "The Pollen Lovers on the Spider’s Web" [editorial title]. In Dream Boats and Other Stories, Written and illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920; copyright 1918. Written and illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker., 1920, Doubleday, Page & Company. Source scan leaf 29. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0378-0023
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Dugald Stewart Walker. The Pollen Lovers on the Spider’s Web. Dream Boats and Other Stories. Scan leaf 29. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0378-0023