Drawing on America's past
Subtitle: folk art, modernism, and the Index of American Design
By: Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Elizabeth Stillinger, Erika Doss
Contributors: Stillinger, Elizabeth; Doss, Erika, 1956-; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Exhibitions; Decorative arts; Folk art; Watercolor painting; Index of American Design; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: Picturing a "usable past" / Virginia Tuttle Clayton; title: From attics, sheds, and secondhand shops : collecting folk art in America, 1880-1940 / Elizabeth Stillinger; title: American folk art's "distinctive character" : the Index of American Design and New Deal notions of cultural nationalism / Erika Doss; title: Catalogue : carvings, domestic artifacts, furniture, textiles, toys, trade signs and figures, weather vanes, whirligigs, and one drum / Deborah Chotner, Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Louisa Ransom; title: Artists' biographies; title: Annotated list of state projects.