print email comment close Index of American Design URL: http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iad.htm Description: This exhibit from the National Gallery of Art works on two levels. The first is "watercolor renderings of American decorative arts objects from the colonial period through the nineteenth century" produced as a New Deal project between 1935 and 1942, a time when interest in American folk art was rising. The second is the objects depicted--textiles, costumes, metalwork, carvings, dolls, etc., including objects from the Spanish Southwest, Shaker, and Pennsylvania German folk art traditions. Publisher: National Gallery of Art Library of Congress Subject Headings: Decorative arts -- United States Folk art LII Database Information: Record 8912 created by Pat Fell on 01/08/2003 Last modification on 01/13/2003 Published: 01/08/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8912