This is an 14 1/2 by 18 1/4  inch charcoal drawing of a dancer/ballerina/showgirl on stage seemingly bowing to audience  It was done by listed New York artist Eleanor Modrakowska in 1916. The paper it is drawn on measures 14 1/2 by 18 1/4 inches.  It is in very good condition to excellent. See the above condition report as well as the photos.  

    It will be shipped for $22 via USPS or UPS.    

  Eleanor Modrakowska was born in College Point, New York in 1879.  She was a painter and etcher who painted mainly portraits, landscapes, and flower studies. She went to Europe at an early 

age where she immediately developed a love for art and frequently visited museums in Firenze and Manchen.  At age 14 she had her first teacher, the Czechoslovakian artist Anton Azbe.  Upon her return to the US, she studied in New York at the Art Students League.  Modrakowska became well-known for bold, vital brushstrokes and her use of brilliant colors.  

  She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Society of American Etchers, and the Chicago Society of Etchers. She lived for an unspecified time in Colorado, Wisconsin and Lake Placid, N.Y. besides her apparently longest residence in Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.  She also spent some time, perhaps years in both Paris and Munich.  From dates on some of her artwork, she was in Munich in 1908 and 1914, with questionable time periods in between visits/stays. Among other places, she exhibited at the Kraushaar Gallery in New York and her drypoint self-portrait (Reflection) dating from 1936 is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It was a gift from the Chicago Society of Etchers. She died in New York in 1955.