Index of American Design

Between 1935 and 1942 a Federal Art Project employed artists to record American decorative and folk objects in exact watercolour renderings: weathervanes, quilts, toys, ceramics, carved figures. The result is a visual archive of everyday craft, painted with remarkable care.

24 works ·

Mirror

B. Holst-Grubbe, 1935/1942

Fence

Rose Campbell-Gerke, c. 1941

Chest

Irving I. Smith, c. 1936