Highboy

Highboy by Isadore Goldberg

Medium

watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard

Dimensions

overall: 30.5 x 22.7 cm (12 x 8 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 91 1/2"high; 46 3/4"wide; 24 1/4"deep

Classification

Index of American Design

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Index of American Design

Accession Number

1943.8.5221

About the Artist

Isadore Goldberg

Isadore Goldberg (b. 1904), an American artist, gained recognition through his contributions to the Index of American Design, a New Deal-era initiative under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Active primarily in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Goldberg produced meticulous renderings of everyday American objects, capturing the essence of folk craftsmanship during a time when ...

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