Art, literature & history
Little Nemo in Slumberland: Climbing the Great North Pole
1907
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink and brush and black ink over graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- image: 70.49 x 54.61 cm (27 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.) sheet: 72.71 x 57.15 cm (28 5/8 x 22 1/2 in.) top section: 36.83 x 57.15 cm (14 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.) bottom section: 35.88 x 57.15 cm (14 1/8 x 22 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2009.28.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Winsor McCay. Little Nemo in Slumberland: Climbing the Great North Pole. Winsor McCay; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winsor_McCay,_Little_Nemo_in_Slumberland_-_Climbing_the_Great_North_Pole,_1907,_NGA_142154.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Little Nemo in Slumberland: Climbing the Great North Pole — Winsor McCay. 1907.
Medium: pen and black ink and brush and black ink over graphite on paperboard.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 70.49 x 54.61 cm (27 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.) sheet: 72.71 x 57.15 cm (28 5/8 x 22 1/2 in.) top section: 36.83 x 57.15 cm (14 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.) bottom section: 35.88 x 57.15 cm (14 1/8 x 22 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2009.28.2. Richard S. Zeisler Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.