Adam and Eve

c. 1939

Yolande Delasser

Artist, American, active c. 1935

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite with scraping, on paper

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 45.5 x 50.4 cm (17 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 23" wide; 20" high

  • Accession

    1943.8.8096

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. 1, as Garden of Eden.

2019

  • Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 28 Jan 2018-13 May 2018; High Museum of Art, Atlanta 24 Jun 2018-30 Sep 2018; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 18 Nov 2018-18 Mar 2019, cat. 5.

2023

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

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York: 1970, p. 689, no. 2552.

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. 1.

2018

  • Cooke, Lynne. Outliers and American Vanguard Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum, 2018: 134, no. 5.

Wikidata ID

Q64641127

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