Dress (Front and Back View)

Dress (Front and Back View)
 by J. Howard Iams

Medium

watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard

Dimensions

sheet: 38.2 × 50.8 cm (15 1/16 × 20 in.) Original IAD Object: 54" long; sleeves: 26 1/2" long; waist: 30"; cape: 12 1/2" long

Classification

Index of American Design

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Index of American Design

Accession Number

1943.8.2704

About the Artist

J. Howard Iams

John Howard Iams (1897–1964) was an American artist and self-described artist-historian whose passion for the regional past of southwestern Pennsylvania shaped one of the most distinctive careers to emerge from the Federal Art Project era. Born in Amwell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Iams grew up in the North Ten Mile region near the border of Greene County, a landscape steeped in col...

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