Chair
c. 1941
Medium
watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 33 x 25.4 cm (13 x 10 in.) Original IAD Object: 35"high overall; seat 17"high; 14" deep (seat). Dims. from scale dwg.
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.4384
About the Artist
Wellington Blewett
**Wellington Blewett (1875–1962)** was a Canadian-born American artist renowned for his meticulous watercolor renderings of everyday American folk objects. Active primarily in the late 1930s, Blewett contributed significantly to the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that sought to document the nation's vernacular artistic heritage through...