Coverlet
Byron Dingman
c. 1941
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 58.5 x 43 cm (23 1/16 x 16 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 90" wide; 100" long
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.2641
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, ...