Puppet: "Punch"
Edward Strzalkowski
c. 1937
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 50.8 x 37.9 cm (20 x 14 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 25 1/2" high
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.1801
About the Artist
Edward Strzalkowski
Edward Strzalkowski was an American artist active around 1935, best known for his precise watercolor renderings created as part of the Index of American Design, a New Deal-era Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). This ambitious initiative commissioned artists across the United States to document everyday objects of American folk art, crafts, and design through detaile...