Horse Head Hitching Post
Hilda Olson
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 35.5 x 24.4 cm (14 x 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.11501
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...