Waistcoat
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 45.8 x 38.2 cm (18 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.1612
Art Historical Context
This watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil rendering of a waistcoat by Margaret Concha, created between 1935 and 1942, belongs to the renowned Index of American Design at the National Gallery of. Measuring about 18 by 15 inches on paperboard, it showcases the artist's careful attention to detail in capturing the garment's form, fabric, and decorative elements. The Index of American Design was a groundbreaking project of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. Hundreds of artists were commissioned to produce accurate visual records of American fo...
About the Artist
Margaret Concha
Margaret Concha is an artist whose life and career remain incompletely documented in the major scholarly literature on art history. No confirmed birth or death dates have been established, and details of her training, nationality, and primary working period are not reliably recorded in available sources. The works attributed to her suggest engagement with the visual traditions of her era, though ...