"Coral" (Study for Mural, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago)
Walter Shirlaw
ca. 1892
Medium
Charcoal and pastel on tan wove paper
Dimensions
54 1/2 x 31 3/4 in. (138.4 x 80.6 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Gift, 1995
Accession Number
1995.374
Tags
Female Nudes
About the Artist
Walter Shirlaw · 1838–1909
Walter Shirlaw (1838–1909) was a Scottish-born American painter and illustrator whose career bridged the genteel tradition of academic figure painting and the emerging ambitions of American art in the Gilded Age. Born in Paisley, Scotland, Shirlaw emigrated to the United States as a child and received his early artistic training in America before traveling to Munich to study at the Royal Academy —...