Portrait of Maud Wagner (1907)
Maud Stevens Wagner (née Stevens; February 12, 1877 – January 30, 1961) was an American circus performer. She was the first known female tattoο artist in the United States. Wagner was an aerialist and contortionist, working in numerous traveling circuses. She met Gus Wagner—a tattoο artist who described himself as "the most artistically marked up man in America" while traveling with circuses and sideshows—at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in 1904, where she was working as an aerialist. She exchanged a romantic date with him for a lesson in tattοoing, and several years later they were married.
After leaving the circus, Maud and Gus Wagner traveled around the United States, working both as tattoο artists and "tattoοed attractions" in vaudeville houses, county fairs and amusement arcades. They are credited with bringing tattοo artistry inland, away from the coastal cities and towns where the practice had started.
Rectangle Canvas Wrap
Gallery quality canvas print displays vibrant artwork that is built to last. Printed inks that are fade resistant. Inner frame is 1.25" deep and made with radiata pine sourced from renewable forests.
All canvas prints are wrapped and shipped in fitted packaging.
- Materials: cotton and polyester composite (canvas), pine wood (frame)
- Inner frame made with radiata pine sourced from renewable forests
- Leveling Bumpers Included - For wall protection
- Ready To Hang - Mounting hardware comes attached