Details

Title

Untitled (4515 & 4516)

Artist/Maker

Charles Dellschau (American, born Prussia, 1830–1923)

Date

1920

Medium

Mixed media on paper

Dimensions

19 x 17 inches

Credit

Norfolk Southern Collection of Self-Taught Art

Accession #

1998.38

On View

Currently not on view

While cloistered in the attic of his home in Texas, following his wife's death in 1877, Charles Dellschau devoted much of his retirement to creating notebooks filled with painted images of fantastic flying machines. Detailed and inventive, these drawings reflect Dellschau's fascination with the design of mechanized flying contraptions. Turn-of-the-century newspaper clippings about airborne innovations are frequently incorporated as collage elements in Dellschau's visionary works.