Toleware Trinket Box
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 29.3 x 36.3 cm (11 9/16 x 14 5/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 6 3/4" long; 4" wide; 1 3/4" high
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.15152
About the Artist
Charles Henning
Charles Henning remains one of the more elusive figures in the historical record, and the details of his life and training have not been firmly established by scholars. The works attributed to him suggest a practitioner with some formal grounding in draftsmanship and composition, yet the circumstances of his education and the masters or institutions that shaped him are not currently documented. W...