Cigar Store Pocahontas
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper
Dimensions
overall: 41.5 x 30.5 cm (16 5/16 x 12 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.10053
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of, where *Cigar Store Pocahas* by Lucille Lacoursiere (5/1942) offers a vivid window into America's folk art heritage. This delicate watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper—measuring 41.5 x 30.5 cm—meticulously documents a wooden cigar store figure portraying the legendary Pocahontas. Created as part of the Index of American Design, a-era Federal Art Project, preserves the bold, life-sized trade figures that once stood sentinel outside tobacco shops from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. These cigar store Indians, often carved in exaggerated Nati...