Toaster
Alice Cosgrove
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 35.5 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 18" wide; 24" long
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.15130
About the Artist
Alice Cosgrove
Alice Ericson Cosgrove (1909–1971) was born on February 16, 1909, in Concord, New Hampshire, the youngest daughter of Finnish immigrants Eric Ericson, a granite cutter, and Sophia Granholm. Encouraged by her father to pursue art from a young age, she graduated from Concord High School in 1925 and enrolled that same year at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, completing her studies in ...