Dress
Jessie M. Benge
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 29.9 x 23 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 59 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
1943.8.3965
About the Artist
Jessie M. Benge
Jessie M. Benge (1881–1971) was an artist born in England who became one of the many contributors to the Index of American Design, the New Deal project administered through the Federal Art Project that employed artists nationwide to document American decorative arts, crafts, and material culture from the colonial era through the late nineteenth century. The Index, conceived in the 1930s and execut...