Writing Desk
1937
Medium
watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 35.9 x 29.4 cm (14 1/8 x 11 9/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 42"high; 38"wide; 22"deep
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.4967
About the Artist
Carl Buergerniss
**Carl Buergerniss** (1877–1956) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who later made his home in Island Heights, New Jersey. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a leading institution that shaped many American artists of his era, and exhibited there regularly from 1901 to 1930. While specific teachers are not documented in available sources, his training a...