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Drawing, Design for Ark Curtain with Crest, for a St. Louis Synagogue

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1950 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is cut paper, brush and gouache on silver patterned paper with a cut paper overlay. 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: 22.7 × 23.3 cm (8 15/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in blue ballpoint pen, old mat below lower left corner of drawing: St. Louis / Curtain: "Crest"; below lower right corner of drawing: T. Guermonprez. Typed on gold label affixed to verso, upper left: Trude Guermonprez / Pond Farm / Guerneville, Cal.; in blue pen at lower right of label: Aug 6th 1950

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Ark Curtain with Crest, for a St. Louis Synagogue; USA; cut paper, brush and gouache on silver patterned paper with a cut paper overlay; H x W: 22.7 × 23.3 cm (8 15/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives; 1993-121-42

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