Carl Link: Inside the Studio

The NIC’s Carl Link collection comprises the second largest subcategory of the Permanent Collection which includes approximately 2,000 drawings and works on paper by the German-American artist, commercial illustrator, and art educator. Inside the Studio will be a small sampling of the collection for visitors to enjoy. Link immigrated to the United States in September 1914 and spent years teaching, designing costumes and theater sets, as well as creating portraits of actors and dancers in New York, before moving to the West. From 1936 to 1938, he taught art classes at Glacier National Park in Montana and at Lake Tahoe. In the 1930’s, he drew portraits of rodeo cowgirls and he developed a great interest in the West and Native American culture. In the late 1940’s, he purchased a home at Lake Tahoe where he taught art classes and created over 200 illustrations of costumes of people throughout the world for the World Book Encyclopedia. He continued to spend time at Lake Tahoe until his death in 1968.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website