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Drawing on America's past : folk art, modernism, and the Index of American Design / Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Elizabeth Stillinger, Erika Doss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clayton, Virginia Tuttle, 1946-
- Series:
- NGA publications (online)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Index of American Design--Exhibitions.
- Index of American Design.
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.)--Exhibitions--2002.
- Decorative arts--United States--Exhibitions.
- Decorative arts.
- Folk art--United States--Exhibitions.
- Folk art.
- Decorative arts--Washington (D.C.)--Exhibitions.
- Watercolor painting--Washington (D.C.)--Exhibitions.
- Watercolor painting.
- Local Subjects:
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.)--Exhibitions--2002.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 pages) : color illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art, ©2002.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Nov. 27, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Clayton, Virginia Tuttle, 1946- Drawing on America's past.
- OCLC:
- 606933110
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