Nameboard from Schooner
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 50.6 x 73.1 cm (19 15/16 x 28 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 74 1/2" long; 8" wide
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.7687
Art Historical Context
Behold the *Nameboard from Schoon*, a captivating 1935/1942 rendering by artist Beverly Chichester, part of the esteemed Index of American Design. This mixed-media work—watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard—measures 50.6 x 73.1 cm and meticulously documents a wooden nameboard originally 74½ inches long and 8 inches wide from an American schooner. Created during the Great Depression-era Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), exemplifies the Index's mission to preserve vanishing examples of American folk art through precise, colorful reproductio...
About the Artist
Beverly Chichester
Beverly Chichester was an American artist active in the mid-1930s and early 1940s, whose contributions to the Index of American Design reveal an eye particularly drawn to the world of American toys, dolls, and childhood objects. Working in watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard, Chichester produced a body of work distinguished by its delicacy of observation and its sympath...