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Nineteenth-Century Toys: Watercolor Renderings from the Index of American Design

December 21, 1977 – March 19, 1978
Ground Floor, Galleries G-14, G-15 (1,200 sq. ft.)

Charles Henning, Toy Locomotive, c. 1940, watercolor and graphite on paperboard, Index of American Design, 1943.8.13989

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: 117 watercolor illustrations of 19th-century toys and dolls were installed by Lina Steele, curator of the Index.