Gabriel Weather Vane

c. 1939

Lucille Chabot

Artist, American, 1908 - 2005

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 36.2 x 52.4 cm (14 1/4 x 20 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.8.9505

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. 78, as Angel Gabriel Weather Vane.

2014

  • Folk Art and American Modernism, American Folk Art Museum, New York, 2014 - 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

2021

  • American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds, American Folk Art Museum, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York: 1970, p. 454, no. 1588.

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. 78.

  • Clayton, Virginia. "Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art and the Index of American Design." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 27 (Spring 2002): 17, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q64594130

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