Ceiling of Baptistry Niche, Mission Dolores
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 24.6 x 35.3 cm (9 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: Width, niche: 8'front; 5' 1 3/4"back; 40"deep. Width of ptd. bowl, 8".
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.6502
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hilda Olson · 1855–present
**Hilda Catharina Olson (1832–1915)** was a pioneering Finnish painter, draftsman, and scientific illustrator whose career bridged fine art and natural history documentation. Born in Nykarleby (Uusikaarlepyy), Finland, to a Norwegian-born sea captain father and a shipmaster’s daughter from Gamlakarleby, she pursued formal training in the 1850s at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society in He...