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D.N. Alexandroff worked in New York City.\u00a0 Extant studies of furniture and decorative arts by Alexandroff are thought to be illustrations for the Index of American Design<\/strong>.\u00a0 His background in illustrating objects is evident in the detailed rendition of the vase design in the offered work.<\/p>\n

The Index<\/strong> was a vast pictorial archive of Americana produced between 1935 and 1942 as a project administered by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).\u00a0 The illustrators trained under Suzanne E. Chapman, an illustrator for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who taught them a rendering style of thin layers of watercolor over precise graphite drawings, traditionally used in archaeology and natural history illustration. The massive collection comprised some 18,000 watercolor renderings of a wide range of American decorative arts, including furniture, weather vanes, toys, quilts, cigar-store Indians, ceramics, and ships’ carvings.\u00a0 They were originally intended for publication in a series of portfolios.\u00a0 Although publication never occurred, the Index<\/strong> remains the most comprehensive study of American folk, popular, and decorative arts ever made, and is now mostly in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, which exhibited some of the paintings in 2003.<\/p>\n

Condition: Generally good with the usual overall light toning, wear, soiling.\u00a0 Some mild matburn not obtrusive.\u00a0 Glue residue from former mounting in outer margins, can be matted out, and glue residue on verso.<\/p>\n

Reference:<\/p>\n

Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. \u201cThe Index of American Design: picturing a national identity.\u201d\u00a0 Magazine Antiques.<\/em>\u00a0 Dec, 2002.\u00a0 Online at Find Articles.com.<\/em> http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1026\/is_6_162\/ai_94773917 (8 September 2005).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D.N. Alexandroff
\nFlowers in a Grecian Black-Figured Vase<\/strong>
\nAmerican, c. 1930s-1940s
\nSigned “D. Alexandroff” beneath monogram lower left
\nHand-colored engraving
\n15 x 12.25 inches, platemark
\n17 x 14 inches, overall
\n$475<\/p>\n

Precise engraved still life of a Grecian black-figured vase filled with an arrangement of flowers in shades of white, pink, yellow and red, with green foliage.\u00a0 The engraving is carefully hand-colored to produce the effect of an original painting.\u00a0 The artist signed it below a hand-painted monogram.\u00a0 He also added a small pen-and-ink watercolor of a sprig of yellow flowers below the engraved line.<\/p>\n

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