Coverlet, "Boston Town"
Byron Dingman
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 59.3 x 47.2 cm (23 3/8 x 18 9/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 79 1/2" long; 73" wide
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.2638
About the Artist
Byron Dingman
Byron Dingman (1886–1951) was an American artist whose career, though sparsely documented in personal terms, gained significance through his contributions to the Index of American Design, a New Deal-era Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Active primarily in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Dingman produced meticulous renderings of everyday American folk art objects, ...