Sampler
Edna C. Rex
c. 1939
Medium
watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 38.3 x 27.9 cm (15 1/16 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 9 1/4" wide; 13" high
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.37
About the Artist
Edna C. Rex
Edna Crenshaw Rex was an American artist active in the late 1930s and around 1940, best known for her meticulous contributions to the Index of American Design, the federally funded visual survey of American decorative arts produced under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Her full name — Edna Crenshaw Rex — appears in the National Gallery of Art's records, which holds the Ind...