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1919

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1988

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Drawing, Textile Design: Skorpion (Scorpion)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Maria Likarz-Strauss and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1919 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.

Its dimensions are

8.9 × 6.7 cm (3 1/2 × 2 5/8 in.) Mat: 46 × 29.8 cm (18 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: SKORPION; in blue crayon, upper right (vertically): 399

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Skorpion (Scorpion); Designed by Maria Likarz-Strauss (Austrian, b. Poland, 1893–1971); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 8.9 × 6.7 cm (3 1/2 × 2 5/8 in.) Mat: 46 × 29.8 cm (18 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-513

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