The image shows a clock with a wooden frame, a circular face with Roman numerals, visible gears, and a small painted panel below. The panel depicts a landscape scene with a tree, a body of water, and a white house with a pink background. The color palette includes rich browns, whites, greens, pinks, blues, and black numerals. The clock is centered on an off-white background, with the landscape scene beneath.

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Painted Clock

John Koehl (American, active c. 1935)

1940

Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard
Classification: Index of American Design
Dimensions: overall: 55.5 x 45.9 cm (21 7/8 x 18 1/16 in.) ; Original IAD Object: 26"high; dial 7 3/4"in diameter.
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line: Index of American Design
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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