There are 2 other images of this object. See our image rights statement.
Object Timeline
|
1914 |
|
|
1924 |
|
|
1991 |
|
|
2013 |
|
|
2015 |
|
|
2018 |
|
|
2021 |
|
|
2025 |
|
Drawing, Study for Title Page, Les Jardins d'André Vera, ca. 1919
This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera. It is dated ca. 1919 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund.
- Drawing, Garden of Monsieur de Ste. James at Neuilly, France
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor and gouache, ruled black border in....
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1911-28-136
- Drawing, Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design...
- watercolor and charcoal on white wove paper.
- Gift of Walter Hood.
- 2020-11-2
Its dimensions are
31.9 × 20.2 cm (12 9/16 × 7 15/16 in.), irregular Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)
It is inscribed
Upper left margin, in graphite: donner plus d'intimité et d'unité; in box in lower margin, in pen and black ink: Les Jardins d'André Vera
Cite this object as
Drawing, Study for Title Page, Les Jardins d'André Vera, ca. 1919; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on tracing paper; 31.9 × 20.2 cm (12 9/16 × 7 15/16 in.), irregular Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-19
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.
