Girl with Feathered Hat
1910
Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 14.76 × 11.11 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Accession Number
2015.19.3446.a
Art Historical Context
**Girl with Feathered Hat** (1910) by Max Weber captures a poised young woman in a stylish feathered hat, rendered in watercolor over graphite on a modest sheet of wove paper measuring just 14.76 × 11.11 cm. This intimate drawing, now part of the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn), showcases Weber's early modernist experimentation. Born in Russia and active in New York, Weber was a key figure in bringing European avant-garde influences—like Cubism and Fauvism—to American shores around 1910, bridging traditional portraiture with bold abstraction. The artwork...
About the Artist
Max Weber
Max Weber (1881–1961), born in Białystok in the Russian Empire (now Poland) to Orthodox Jewish parents, immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, at age ten with his family, joining his tailor father.) There, he pursued art studies at the Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow, an innovative teacher who emphasized expression and form over traditional narrative, drawing from Japanese art and Paul Gauguin....