Handmade Embroidery
Edith Magnette
c. 1936
Medium
graphite and wash on paper
Dimensions
overall: 22.8 x 30.5 cm (9 x 12 in.) Original IAD Object: 13 1/2" in circumfrence; 2 1/2" wide
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.163
About the Artist
Edith Magnette
Edith Magnette was an American artist who contributed to the Index of American Design during the late 1930s and early 1940s, one of the New Deal's most ambitious cultural programs. Operating under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, the Index employed artists across the United States to produce meticulous watercolor renderings of American decorative arts and material culture f...