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- catalog abstract ""This illustrated book commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of the Index of American Design. Widely regarded as one of the New Deal's most important art projects, the Index began in 1935 as a unit of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Its aim was to compile and eventually publish a visual archive of American folk, popular, and decorative art from the time of settlement to about 1900. The approximately one thousand artists involved in the project created more than eighteen thousand meticulous watercolor portraits of America." "The book displays eighty-two of the finest watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts they represent. The original objects range from quilts, weather vanes, and hand-carved toys to carousel animals, stoneware, and cigar-store figures. Three essays explore the history, operation, and ambitions of the Index of American Design, examine folk-art collecting in America during the early decades of the twentieth century, and consider the Index's role in the search for a national cultural identity in early twentieth-century United States."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12737396.
- catalog contributor b12737397.
- catalog contributor b12737398.
- catalog contributor b12737399.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""This illustrated book commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of the Index of American Design. Widely regarded as one of the New Deal's most important art projects, the Index began in 1935 as a unit of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Its aim was to compile and eventually publish a visual archive of American folk, popular, and decorative art from the time of settlement to about 1900. The approximately one thousand artists involved in the project created more than eighteen thousand meticulous watercolor portraits of America." "The book displays eighty-two of the finest watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts they represent. The original objects range from quilts, weather vanes, and hand-carved toys to carousel animals, stoneware, and cigar-store figures. Three essays explore the history, operation, and ambitions of the Index of American Design, examine folk-art collecting in America during the early decades of the twentieth century, and consider the Index's role in the search for a national cultural identity in early twentieth-century United States."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.".
- catalog description "Picturing a "usable past" / Virginia Tuttle Clayton -- From attics, sheds, and secondhand shops : collecting folk art in America, 1880-1940 / Elizabeth Stillinger -- American folk art's "distinctive character" : the Index of American Design and New Deal notions of cultural nationalism / Erika Doss -- Catalogue : carvings, domestic artifacts, furniture, textiles, toys, trade signs and figures, weather vanes, whirligigs, and one drum / Deborah Chotner, Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Louisa Ransom -- Artists' biographies -- Annotated list of state projects.".
- catalog extent "253 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Drawing on America's past.".
- catalog identifier "0807827940".
- catalog identifier "0894682954 (alk. paper : pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Drawing on America's past.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Drawing on America's past.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "Washington (D.C.)".
- catalog subject "745/.0973/074753 21".
- catalog subject "Decorative arts United States Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Decorative arts Washington (D.C.) Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Folk art United States Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Index of American Design Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "NK805 .D73 2002".
- catalog subject "National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Watercolor painting Washington (D.C.) Exhibitions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Picturing a "usable past" / Virginia Tuttle Clayton -- From attics, sheds, and secondhand shops : collecting folk art in America, 1880-1940 / Elizabeth Stillinger -- American folk art's "distinctive character" : the Index of American Design and New Deal notions of cultural nationalism / Erika Doss -- Catalogue : carvings, domestic artifacts, furniture, textiles, toys, trade signs and figures, weather vanes, whirligigs, and one drum / Deborah Chotner, Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Louisa Ransom -- Artists' biographies -- Annotated list of state projects.".
- catalog title "Drawing on America's past : folk art, modernism, and the Index of American Design / Virginia Tuttle Clayton ...[et al.].".
- catalog type "Exhibition catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "text".