"Casa en Mesita" or Chest on Stand
Majel G. Claflin
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and heightening on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 29.6 x 37 cm (11 5/8 x 14 9/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.7533
About the Artist
Majel G. Claflin
Majel G. Claflin (1893–1941) was an American artist best known for her meticulous documentation of Spanish Colonial folk art from northern New Mexico. Active in Taos, New Mexico, during the late 1930s, she produced watercolor renderings as part of the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration that aimed to catalog regional American crafts and tradition...