Floating Compass
c. 1938
Medium
watercolor, graphite and pen and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 56.5 x 46 cm (22 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.) Original IAD Object: outer box: 12" high; 12" wide; 7 1/2" deep
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.9376
About the Artist
Archie Thompson
Archie Thompson is an artist whose presence in museum collections, represented by a substantial body of recorded works, testifies to a productive career that the broader art-historical record has not yet fully documented. His dates and nationality remain unrecorded in the sources currently available, leaving the particular tradition and training context from which he emerged difficult to specify w...