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Wall Paper

Wall Paper by Elizabeth Valentine

Medium

watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on paper

Dimensions

overall: 37.8 x 30.7 cm (14 7/8 x 12 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 31 1/2" long; 19 1/2" high

Classification

Index of American Design

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Index of American Design

Accession Number

1943.8.16035

Rights

Public Domain

About the Artist

Elizabeth Valentine · 1855–present

Elizabeth Valentine was an American artist active around 1935, best known for her precise renderings of everyday American folk art objects as part of the Index of American Design. This ambitious Federal Art Project, sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression, aimed to catalog and celebrate the nation's artistic heritage through detailed watercolor and gouache ...

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