Mirror, Framed with Wall Paper Panels, Bordered in Tin
c. 1938
Medium
watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and gouache on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 36 x 27.8 cm (14 3/16 x 10 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: as shown
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.6693
About the Artist
Majel G. Claflin
Majel G. Claflin (1893–1941) was an American artist best known for her meticulous documentation of Spanish Colonial folk art from northern New Mexico. Active in Taos, New Mexico, during the late 1930s, she produced watercolor renderings as part of the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration that aimed to catalog regional American crafts and tradition...