Pa. German Painted Chest
Frances Lichten
c. 1938
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 27.8 x 41.2 cm (10 15/16 x 16 1/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 25" high; 50" long; 23 1/4" wide
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.3611
About the Artist
Frances Lichten
Frances Lichten was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, in 1889. At fourteen she enrolled in the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, where she studied design and interior decoration, while also pursuing landscape painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating she worked as a commercial artist for nearly a decade, building the technical foundation that would later serve...