Knife and Fork Holder
c. 1937
Medium
watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 32.7 x 42.5 cm (12 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 14 6/16" long; 5 3/4" wide; 9 1/4" high
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.8073
About the Artist
Wellington Blewett
**Wellington Blewett (1875–1962)** was a Canadian-born American artist renowned for his meticulous watercolor renderings of everyday American folk objects. Active primarily in the late 1930s, Blewett contributed significantly to the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that sought to document the nation's vernacular artistic heritage through...