Table Napkin
Arthur G. Merkley
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 40.5 x 43.7 cm (15 15/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.544
About the Artist
Arthur G. Merkley
Arthur G. Merkley is an artist about whom biographical documentation remains scarce. No confirmed dates of birth or death have been established, and the national or cultural context of his work has not been definitively identified in the scholarly literature. The works attributed to him point to activity likely in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, but the precise circumstances of his...