Drawing on America's past : folk art, modernism, and the Index of American Design by Clayton, Virginia Tuttle ; Stillinger, Elizabeth ; Doss, Erika Lee ; National Gallery of Art (U.S.) - 2002

Washington [D.C.]: National Gallery of Art, 2002. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. A very fine copy in very fine DJ. No remainder mark. Extermely faint shelf-wear to portions of DJ (negligible).. Large quarto in color pictorial DJ; 253 p. : col. ill.; bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index. ; 28 cm. A beautifully produced work. Contents: Picturing a "usable past" / Virginia Tuttle Clayton -- From attics, sheds, and secondhand shops : collecting folk art in America, 1880-1940 / Elizabeth Stillinger -- American folk art's "distinctive character" : the Index of American Design and New Deal notions of cultural nationalism / Erika Doss -- Catalogue : carvings, domestic artifacts, furniture, textiles, toys, trade signs and figures, weather vanes, whirligigs, and one drum / Deborah Chotner, Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Louisa Ransom -- Artists' biographies -- Annotated list of state projects. || Decorative arts -- United States -- Exhibitions. Folk art -- United States -- Exhibitions. Decorative arts -- Washington (D.C.) -- Exhibitions. Watercolor painting -- Washington (D.C.) -- Exhibitions. Arts décoratifs -- États-Unis -- Expositions. Art populaire -- États-Unis -- Expositions. Volkskunst. Kunsthandwerk. Index of American Design -- Exhibitions. National Gallery of Art (U.S.) -- Exhibitions. Index of American Design. National Gallery of Art (États-Unis) -- Expositons.