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1927

  • Work on this object began.

1938

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Abstract polychrome flora

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1927 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is gouache support: ivory paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was bequest of Unknown. It is credited Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg.

  • No 953 Brooch , 2004
  • painted wood, plastic, silver, painted acrylic.
  • The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
  • 2016-34-93

Its dimensions are

20.8 x 17.7 cm (8 3/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite at lower left: Dr. 22

Cite this object as

Drawing, Abstract polychrome flora; France; gouache support: ivory paper; 20.8 x 17.7 cm (8 3/16 x 6 15/16 in.); Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg; 1938-82-246

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