Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design

by Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Erika Doss, Elizabeth Stillinger

This beautifully illustrated book commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of the Index of American Design. Widely regarded as one of the New Deal's most important art projects, the Index began in 1935 as a unit of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Its aim was to compile and eventually publish a visual archive of American folk, popular, and decorative art from the time of settlement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807827940
• ISBN13: 9780807827949
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.0" x 11.0"