Applique Bedspread
Rose Campbell-Gerke
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 28.2 x 35.5 cm (11 1/8 x 14 in.) Original IAD Object: 104" wide; 90" long
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.268
About the Artist
Rose Campbell-Gerke
Rose Campbell-Gerke (born 1882) was a California-born American artist who worked as a watercolorist for the Index of American Design, the New Deal-era federal project that systematically documented American folk and decorative arts. The National Gallery of Art holds sixty-six works by Campbell-Gerke in its collection, making her one of the more prolific individual contributors to the Index. Her bo...