Watch Fob with Human Hair Chain
Kathryn Uhl
c. 1936
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 22.3 x 22.8 cm (8 3/4 x 9 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.2465
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Kathryn Uhl · 1855–present
Kathryn Uhl Ball (1910–2000) was an American artist, illustrator, lithographer, enamelist, and educator born in Sacramento, California, the daughter of metalsmith George Adam Uhl. She graduated from Mills College in Oakland in 1932, majoring in art, and went on to teach life drawing, illustration, and costume design there for many years. In 1939 she married ceramist F. Carlton Ball, a fellow Mills...