Dress
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 41.3 x 30.7 cm (16 1/4 x 12 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: skirt: 38" long; 184" wide; bodice: 34" wide; 8 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
1943.8.1574
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Virginia Berge · 1855–present
Virginia Berge was an American artist active around 1935 whose surviving body of work consists of meticulously rendered watercolor and graphite illustrations of historic clothing and accessories. Her early life and formal training are not well documented. She is known exclusively through her participation in the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration t...