Medium: Pastel on paper.

Condition: Very good with some rubbing and smears. Pastel has been treated with a fixative so it no longer smears.

Size is approximately 13x17”

Artist is Freda L Freiter, signed lower right

Not dated but bought with 2 other drawings dated 1978

Artist bio:

Freda L. Reiter was a courtroom sketch artist and did art for the Philadelphia Inquirer and worked as a TV sketch artist. Showing a talent for art at an early age, Freda and her identical twin sister Ida won 21 scholarships for art schools. In Mexico City she studied with Diego Rivera, returning to the US in 1943. She worked as a volunteer for the USO, drawing sketches of soldiers, and married dentist Frank Reiter that same year. She covered many high profile trials as a sketch artist, and spent two years in Washington, DC covering the hearings and trials of Watergate for the ABC Television network. Freda was the courtroom sketch artist for the Watergate trials, where cameras weren’t permitted. Her deftly drawn pastels depict moments inside and out of the legal proceedings, lending drama to an all but invisible sequence of events. Reiter’s powerful work was aired on nightly news shows and became the popular images of a political scandal that captured the frustrated nation’s imagination.