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Drawing, Design for Ark Curtain with Menorah Encircled by Wreath, for a St. Louis Synagogue

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1950 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is brush and gouache on silver patterned paper, gold cellophane on white cardboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 19.7 × 20.5 cm (7 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, old mat beneath lower left corner of drawing: Temple St. Louis; below right corner of drawing: Trude Guermonprez / Pond Farm

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Ark Curtain with Menorah Encircled by Wreath, for a St. Louis Synagogue; USA; brush and gouache on silver patterned paper, gold cellophane on white cardboard; H x W: 19.7 × 20.5 cm (7 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.); Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives; 1993-121-41

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