Coffee Mill

c. 1940

Lelah Nelson

Associated Names
Lelah Nelson

Artist, American, active c. 1935

The image shows a vintage manual coffee grinder with a metal bowl on top of a wooden box. The color palette includes muted greens, browns, and metallic tones with weathered wood. The handle extends vertically from the metal bowl, and there is a small wooden drawer at the bottom front of the box, slightly open to reveal the interior space for collecting ground coffee.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 40.6 x 35.5 cm (16 x 14 in.)
    Original IAD Object: Box: 9" high; 9" wide; 5 1/2" deep; hopper: 6 3/4" in diameter4" deep

  • Accession Number

    1943.8.16612

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York: 1970, p. 486, no. 1728.

Inscriptions

lower right in watercolor: LELAH NELSON

Wikidata ID

Q64592883

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