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Curt Swan was born in Minneapolis [3] on February 17, 1920, [4] the youngest of five children. Swan's Swedish grandmother had shortened and Americanized the original family name of Svensson. [citation needed] Father John Swan worked for the railroads; mother Leontine Jessie Hanson [5] had worked in a local hospital. [6]
The drawing is the only extant larger-scale drawing by the artist. [3] The drawing depicts the Virgin Mary seated on the thigh of her mother, Saint Anne, while holding the Christ Child as Christ's young cousin, John the Baptist, stands to the right. It currently hangs in the National Gallery in London.
The Trumpet of the Swan. Illustrated by Edward Frascino. Harper & Row. ISBN 9780060263973. Andersen, Hans Christian (1971). The Little Mermaid. Translated by Eva Le Gallienne; illustrated by Edward Frascino. Harper. ISBN 9780060237837. Yessayan Cretan, Gladys (1972). A Hole, a Box, and a Stick. Illustrated by Edward Frascino.
Barbie of Swan Lake; S. Scrambled Eggs (1939 film) Swan Lake (1981 film) T. The Trumpet of the Swan (film) W. The Wild Swans (1962 film) The Wild Swans (1977 film)
Anonymous, possibly Fernando Yanez de la Almedina, Leda and the Swan. Oil on panel, 51 5/8 x 30 inches (131.1 x 76.2 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (previously at John G. Johnson Collection, 1917) Giampietrino, Leda and the Swan, from the collection of the Marquis of Hastings; Giampietrino, Venus and Cupid, private collection, Milan
The controversial nature of Michelangelo's rendition of Leda and the Swan may have contributed to the disappearance of his original painting and cartoon. According to reports, Queen Anne of Austria ordered the destruction of the painting in the seventeenth century due to her objections to its perceived "lasciviousness." An inventory from 1691 ...
The cartoon focuses on a couple of mute swans who love each other. A greedy and stubborn black swan attracts the female mute swan, who decides to go with him, rather than the male mute swan, leaving him depressed. Later on, the black swan abuses his mate when she fails to catch a fish. The female mute swan distracts him when she gives him a frog.
The book received a strong positive review by John Updike in The New York Times, in which he said, "While not quite so sprightly as Stuart Little, and less rich in personalities and incident than Charlotte's Web – that paean to barnyard life by a city humorist turned farmer – The Trumpet of the Swan has superior qualities of its own; it is the most spacious and serene of the three, the one ...