Draw Shave
Robert Tardiff
1938
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 26.2 x 44.5 cm (10 5/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.16574
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Robert Tardiff · 1855–present
Robert Austin Tardiff (1914–1997) was an American artist whose precise watercolor renderings of everyday objects form a small but valuable part of the nation’s visual record of folk and decorative arts. Born on February 4, 1914, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to Marion Ivan Tardiff and Vivian Lyle Gates Tardiff, he grew up in a family of French-Canadian descent in central Wisconsin. After attending ...