Dress
c. 1938
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 45.9 x 37.9 cm (18 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: bust: 33 1/4"; waist: 26"; sleeve inseam: 26", outseam: 28"; neck to waist: 9" long; shoulder to waist: 13 1/4"; skirt: 39" long;
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.1513
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...