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Commemorates the 60th anniversary of the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of the Index of American Design. A New Deal project, the Index includes 18,000 meticulous watercolor portraits of American folk, popular, and decorative art created prior to 1900. The book features 82 watercolors with photographs of artifacts portrayed (from quilts to carousel animals). Three essays explore the history and role the Index and examine folk-art collecting during the early 1900s.

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An American-Mexican Frontier 2011, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807897942

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