Marionette - "Biddy"
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 35.9 x 28 cm (14 1/8 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 35" high
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.15680
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...