Colcha
Majel G. Claflin
1935/1942
Medium
gouache and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 35.6 x 45.8 cm (14 x 18 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 48" long
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.14768
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...