Wilbur M Rice

Wilbur M Rice was an American artist active during the mid-1930s, specifically documenting works for the Federal Art Project between 1935 and 1937. Rice's output is exclusively associated with the Index of American Design (IAD), a significant initiative established during the Great Depression to systematically survey, record, and render historical American decorative arts, crafts, and folk objects.

Rice contributed substantially to the IAD archive, with fifteen cataloged index entries represented in museum collections. These detailed, technical renderings served as vital visual records of American material culture. The specific objects documented include a depiction of a Butter Mold, a Flour Barrel, and renderings of domestic folk textiles such as a Horseshoe Bonnet. Rice is also credited with multiple representations of traditional toys, notably two separate depictions of a Corn Husk Doll on Horse.

The documentary significance and artistic quality of Rice's work are established by its inclusion in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art. As works created for a federal project, documentation of Rice’s designs is frequently made available in the public domain. Today, researchers and collectors seeking Wilbur M Rice prints often utilize resources offering high-quality prints of these precise historical records.