A Portfolio of Rubbings from Early American Sculpture...
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portfolio of fourteen stone rubbings (including title page, introduction, and table of contents)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1968.24.49.1-14
Art Historical Context
**A Portfolio of Rubb from Early American Sculpture** (1963), created by artists Ann Parker and Avon Neal is a captivating portfolio housed in the National Gallery of's Rosenwald Collection. unique work consists of fourteen stone rubb, thoughtfully including a title page, introduction, table of contents, classified as a portfolio in the CG-W Department. Produced in the mid-20th century, it reflects a meticulous effort to document and preserve the tactile essence of early American sculpture through an ancient artistic technique. Stone rubbing, a method akin to frottage, involves placing paper ...
About the Artist
Ann Parker and Avon Neal
Ann Parker and Avon Neal were an American husband-and-wife artistic partnership whose decades-long collaboration produced one of the most distinctive bodies of documentary photography and folk-art scholarship in twentieth-century American culture. Working together from the 1950s onward, they combined Parker's photographic eye with Neal's writing and research skills to document vernacular and folk ...