This painting shows a living room packed with wooden furniture, including chairs, a sofa, a table, and a piano. The color palette includes browns, greens, yellows, reds, and blues in the decorations and fabrics. A small Christmas tree and toys are on a rug near the bottom-right corner, with a staircase to the far left and a piano to the far right. In the center appears to be a brick wall with a fireplace on one side and what looks like a feathered headdress hanging from it. In the background on the right, a dining area is visible through an opening, with chairs and a table under a window.
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This painting shows a living room packed with wooden furniture, including chairs, a sofa, a table, and a piano. The color palette includes browns, greens, yellows, reds, and blues in the decorations and fabrics. A small Christmas tree and toys are on a rug near the bottom-right corner, with a staircase to the far left and a piano to the far right. In the center appears to be a brick wall with a fireplace on one side and what looks like a feathered headdress hanging from it. In the background on the right, a dining area is visible through an opening, with chairs and a table under a window.

National Gallery of Art · Index of American Design

"California Mission" Style Interior

Perkins Harnly

Date
1946
Medium
watercolor, graphite, pen and ink, and gouache on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 56.5 × 77.8 cm (22 1/4 × 30 5/8 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design · Drawing
Accession number
1947.1.4
Credit line
Gift of Albert Lewin
Time span
1926 to 1950
Department
CG-W

Subjects and terms

  • American

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