Metal Eagle
Zabelle Missirian
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 30.6 x 40.2 cm (12 1/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.9808
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Zabelle Missirian · 1896–1977
Zabelle Missirian (March 2, 1896–January 1977) was an Armenian-American artist born in Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire. She immigrated to the United States and made her home in Boston, Massachusetts, where she pursued formal training at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. There she studied commercial design in the early 1920s, developing the precise draftsmanship that would define her later work. I...