"Sinbad" Marionette
c. 1938
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 45.3 x 36.1 cm (17 13/16 x 14 3/16 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
1943.8.15642
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
George File · 1885–1995
George File is an artist whose work survives in museum collections in sufficient number to indicate a sustained and productive career, even though the biographical details that might place him within a specific artistic tradition — his dates, his nationality, his training — have not been established in the sources currently accessible to researchers. His name appears consistently enough across ins...