Iron Kettle
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 42.4 x 38.7 cm (16 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 4 1/2" high; 5" in diameter
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.17052
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Herndon Hightower · 1916–1961
Herndon Hightower (1916–1961) was an American artist whose surviving works consist of precise watercolor renderings created for the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Active during the late 1930s, he contributed to this nationwide effort to document the decorative and utilitarian arts of the United States from the colonial period through the ninet...