Dress
Bessie Forman
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 44.8 x 37.4 cm (17 5/8 x 14 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
1943.8.1503
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...