Cap
Dorothy M. Gerhard
c. 1940
Medium
graphite and watercolor on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 29.9 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.2542
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Dorothy M. Gerhard · 1855–present
Dorothy M. Gerhard was an American artist active around 1935 whose precise documentary drawings form a small but distinctive part of one of the most ambitious visual archives of the New Deal era. Her early life, training, and personal circumstances are not well documented, and no records of a specific teacher, art school, or formal movement affiliation have come to light. What survives of her work...