Olga the Headless Girl
Date1946
Artist
Reginald Marsh
(American painter, printmaker, 1898–1954)
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions26 3/4 x 40 in. (67.9 x 101.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Reginald Marsh, 1979
Object number1979-49b
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextVerso of Twelve Figures on the Street, 1979-49a. Olga the Headless Girl was a popular sideshow illusion in the late 1930s and early 1940s in England and the United States. A New Yorker, Marsh could have seen headless girl shows at the 1939 World's Fair and at Coney Island.
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