Child's Dress
Marjorie McIntyre
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 42.8 x 32.5 cm (16 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.1799
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Marjorie McIntyre · 1855–present
Marjorie McIntyre was an American artist active around 1935 whose precise documentary watercolors form a small but distinctive part of the nation’s visual record of historic dress and textiles. Little is known of her early life or formal training, yet her surviving works place her firmly among the hundreds of artists employed by the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project of the Works Prog...