Grotesque Jug

c. 1936

Frank Fumagalli

Artist, American, born Italy, c. 1895 - 1958

Frank Fumagalli

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor with white heightening over graphite on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.6 x 29.1 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 7" High 3 3/4" Dia.(bot)

  • Accession Number

    1943.8.5110


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 23, as Face Jug.

2023

  • Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2023, plate 44, repro.

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York: 1970, p. 359, no. 1252 & 1253.

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003: no. 23.

2023

  • Rudnick, Allison.Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2023: 107, plate 44.

Inscriptions

lower right in watercolor: F.Fumagalli

Wikidata ID

Q64569860


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