Tombstone
J. Henry Marley
c. 1936
Medium
wash and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 35.7 x 24.4 cm (14 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.) Original IAD Object: none given
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.6888
About the Artist
J. Henry Marley
J. Henry Marley was an American artist active in the 1930s who contributed work to the Index of American Design, a landmark cultural project of the New Deal era administered through the Federal Art Project. The Index employed hundreds of artists across the United States to create precise watercolor renderings of American decorative arts, crafts, and material culture from the colonial period throug...