Marionette - "Ahab"
c. 1938
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 51.5 x 29.5 cm (20 1/4 x 11 5/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 18" high
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.16662
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...