Adam & Eve Embroidered Picture

c. 1938

Martha Elliot

Artist, American, 1916 - 2008

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 48.9 x 38.1 cm (19 1/4 x 15 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 13' high; 8 3/4" wide

  • Accession

    1943.8.39


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. 43, as Adam and Eve.

2006

  • "Crewel Work", Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 2006-2007.

Bibliography

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. 43.

Wikidata ID

Q64596720


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