Embroidered Flower Motif
Carl Buergerniss
1941
Medium
watercolor and pen and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 51 x 40.5 cm (20 1/16 x 15 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 42" wide; 46" long
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.508
About the Artist
Carl Buergerniss
**Carl Buergerniss** (1877–1956) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who later made his home in Island Heights, New Jersey. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a leading institution that shaped many American artists of his era, and exhibited there regularly from 1901 to 1930. While specific teachers are not documented in available sources, his training a...