Rocking Chair
1940
Medium
watercolor, colored pencil, and pen and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 44.6 x 33.8 cm (17 9/16 x 13 5/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 38 1/2"high; 16"wide, seat front; back 13"wide. Rockers 38"long
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.4560
About the Artist
LeRoy Griffith
LeRoy Griffith is an artist whose biographical details remain largely undocumented. With no confirmed dates of birth or death and no firmly established national or regional affiliation, the full story of his artistic formation and career has yet to be recovered from the historical record. The works attributed to Griffith that survive in museum collections attest to a practitioner with genuine ski...