Dress
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor, graphite, pen and ink, and gouache on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 67.6 x 50.7 cm (26 5/8 x 19 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: bodice: 14" long; skirt: 36 1/2" long; waist: 27"
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.9498
About the Artist
Paul Ward
Paul Ward was an American artist who contributed to the Index of American Design during the New Deal era, creating detailed watercolor renderings of American decorative objects that are now held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His documented works include Lamp and Camphene Lamp, both rendered in watercolor and graphite on paperboard and created between 1935 and...