Resist Pattern (Daisy)
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
overall: 28 x 22.8 cm (11 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 3 3/4" high; 1 7/8" wide; 1 5/16" deep
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.13344
About the Artist
Wellington Blewett
**Wellington Blewett (1875–1962)** was a Canadian-born American artist renowned for his meticulous watercolor renderings of everyday American folk objects. Active primarily in the late 1930s, Blewett contributed significantly to the Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that sought to document the nation's vernacular artistic heritage through...