Art, Symbol & Imagination
Riding the White Bear
A pale bear carries a small rider through a snowy landscape beneath a huge blue curve of sky. Dark trees occupy one edge while a thin hanging tree descends from above. Nielsen gives the long journey of the title tale its extraordinary scale through the nearly empty sky.
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Kay Nielsen. "Riding the White Bear" [editorial title]. In East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe; English versions by George Webbe Dasent; illustrated by Kay Nielsen. Undated New York illustrated edition, undated edition, George H. Doran Company. Source scan leaf 19. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/nielsen-white-bear
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Kay Nielsen. Riding the White Bear. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Scan leaf 19. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/nielsen-white-bear