Dress
c. 1936
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper
Dimensions
overall: 28.5 x 23.9 cm (11 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.) Original IAD Object: skirt: 37" long, 144" wide; bodice: neck to waist: 15 1/2" long; bust: 36"; waist: 27 1/2"
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.1488
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Bessie Forman · 1855–present
Bessie Forman is an artist whose works survive in museum collections in sufficient quantity to establish her as a genuine practitioner with a real body of output, even as the biographical details that would fully situate her within art history — her dates, her training, her national context — have not been preserved in the sources most accessible to researchers today. Her first name, Bessie, is ch...