Barber Pole
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor, graphite, heightening, colored pencil,and pen and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 35.5 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 8" High
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.8052
About the Artist
Vera Van Voris
Vera Van Voris is an artist whose works have been preserved in museum collections in sufficient number to indicate a serious and sustained artistic practice, even though her biographical details — birth and death dates, nationality, and the particulars of her training — remain undocumented in the standard art-historical literature. Her distinctive name suggests possible Dutch or Central European h...