Decorative Panel from Rail Car Interior
Wellington Blewett
c. 1936
Medium
watercolor, gouache, and pen and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 14 x 18.1 cm (5 1/2 x 7 1/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 70" high; 22" wide
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.12853
About the Artist
Wellington Blewett
**Wellington Blewett (1875–1962)** was a Canadian-born American artist renowned for his meticulous watercolor renderings of everyday American folk objects. Active primarily in the late 1930s, Blewett contributed significantly to the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that sought to document the nation's vernacular artistic heritage through...