Pa. German Bride's Hat Box
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 40.8 x 30.5 cm (16 1/16 x 12 in.) Original IAD Object: 14 1/2" in diameter; 11 3/4" high
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.3750
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
George File · 1885–1995
George File is an artist whose work survives in museum collections in sufficient number to indicate a sustained and productive career, even though the biographical details that might place him within a specific artistic tradition — his dates, his nationality, his training — have not been established in the sources currently accessible to researchers. His name appears consistently enough across ins...