Pa. German Rooster Mantel Ornament
c. 1941
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 37.2 x 27.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 10 3/4" high; 10 1/4" wide; 2 3/4" deep
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.3726
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...