Card Table
Nicholas Gorid
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
sheet: 30 × 23 cm (11 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.7600
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Nicholas Gorid · 1855–present
Nicholas Gorid (b. 1896) was an American artist best known for his meticulous contributions to the Index of American Design, a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project initiative launched in the 1930s to document the nation's rich heritage of decorative arts and folk objects. Active primarily from the mid-1930s through the early 1950s, Gorid produced highly detailed renderings of an...