Doll Cradle
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 24.7 x 35 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.15334
Art Historical Context
**Doll Cradle** *Leslie Macklem, c. 1939* Watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil paperboard, 24.7 x 35 cm Index of American Design, National of Art Leslie Macklem's *Doll Cradle*, around 1939, is a meticulous rendering from the Index of American Design (IAD), a groundbreaking WPA Federal Art Project initiative launched in 1935. Amid the Great Depression, the IAD employed artists across America to document everyday folk art, crafts, and decorative objects through vibrant, accurate watercolor studies. This preserved vanishing cultural treasures for future generations, celebrating the ...