Bonnet
Bessie Forman
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 29.2 x 22.7 cm (11 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.3117
About the Artist
Bessie Forman
Bessie Forman is an artist whose works survive in museum collections in sufficient quantity to establish her as a genuine practitioner with a real body of output, even as the biographical details that would fully situate her within art history — her dates, her training, her national context — have not been preserved in the sources most accessible to researchers today. Her first name, Bessie, is ch...