ledger drawing
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Etymology
[edit]From the frequent use by the artists of paper from ledger books.
Noun
[edit]ledger drawing (plural ledger drawings)
- A narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth, as executed by Native Americans, principally of the Great Plains.
- Synonym: ledger art
- 2013, Richard Pearce, Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists, page xix:
- When John Ross, an anthropologist who had been working with Spokane people for thirty years, took me to the studio of George Flett, I saw my first ledger drawing.
References
[edit]Ledger art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:Ledger art on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- “ledger drawing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.