The Walter Wolff Wasserhoven collection is composed of 478 iconographic documents, which correspond to designs made by the German artist Walter Wolff Wasserhoven for the manufacture of stained glass, presumably between 1932 and 1980, during which time he lived in Colombia. In this sense, with the purpose of providing possible answers to the problems posed by the organization of collections with non-textual documents, it was proposed to advance a process of applied research for the organization of such an archive, with emphasis on the description of iconographic documents. It is considered that this work could make two contributions to future processes of organizing artists' archives. On the one hand, it highlights the importance of identifying the context of production of the documents, in order to analyze them correctly and provide in their descriptions accurate data that allow potential researchers to locate and easily access them according to their interests. On the other hand, based on the analysis of the nature and characteristics of iconographic documents, this work provides general guidelines for the completion of the elements of each of the areas of the international standard of description ISAD (G), whose functionality can be tested in other collections with similar characteristics.