Checkerboard Table
1936
Medium
wash, colored pencil, and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 22.4 x 27.3 cm (8 13/16 x 10 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: none given
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.5563
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...