Artist: Lee Woodward Zeigler (1868 - 1952) was an American artist who worked mostly as a muralist and an oil painter.
Title: Female figure in medieval attire.
Signed: Stamp Lee Woodward Zeigler Estate.
Dimensions: 16 1/4' x 11 3/4".
Date: Early XX C.
Materials and Techniques: charcoal highlighted with pastel and chalk on laid paper.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Museums and Libraries: A collection of Zeigler's papers is held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: American School XX C.
Note: Zeigler was inspired by Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser's work for most of his life.
Acknowledgement: This entry incorporates text from Wikipedia.