Jar
c. 1936
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard.
Dimensions
overall: 29.2 x 23.2 cm (11 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 14 1/3" High 9" Dia(top) 6 3/4" Dia(base)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.6407
About the Artist
Yolande Delasser
Yolande Delasser was an American artist active during the mid-1930s, best known for her meticulous contributions to the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Amid the Great Depression, this ambitious New Deal initiative commissioned artists to document America's rich heritage of folk art and utilitarian objects through precise watercolor ren...